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Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?
 

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Why did the poor poet of Tennessee, upon suddenly receiving two handfuls of silver, deliberate whether to buy him a coat, whic he sadly needed, or invest his money in a pedestrian trip to Rockaway Beach?
 

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Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land.
 

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And still deeper the store of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
 
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