Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
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Man's capacities have never been measured nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedent, so little has been tried.
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One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
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