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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He read more

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading.

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Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a read more

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.''

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He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no read more

He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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