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William Wilberforce Quotes: The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
         

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.


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The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
         



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