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beautiful that any man with a feeling heart would pause 

 to consider the motive which could induce him to carry 

 it off. 



"But nothing of this sort occurs to the egger, who 

 gathers and gathers until he has swept the rock bare. The 

 dollars alone chink in his sordid mind, and he assiduously 

 plies the trade which no man would ply who had the talents 

 and industry to procure subsistence by honorable means." 



