It's calm and - what's that word again - critical - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and classical.
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Sadly, sadly, the sun rose it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning him-self to let it eat him away.Charles Dickens
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