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Upton Sinclair Quotes: An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.
         

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.


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