That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
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I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
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