Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
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Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
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Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
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