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pluck the fruits by the lifting of 
the hand which others gain by toil 
and self-denial and pain. While 
his fellows were besieging fortune 
with prayers and offerings and sac- 
rifices she turned on him her 
indifferent glance, and straightway 
there was a smile on the face of 
fate; she ran before him, and the 
way blossomed with opportunity 
and pleasure. There was a vein of 
native vigor in him, or he would 
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