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I thank you ever so much for sending me the book, &Ⓐemendation this whole nation ought to thank you for writing it. It is the record, bravely set down, of a most brave life, an excellent life, a high &Ⓐemendation great life, a life with nothing in it to regret or to wish obliterated. The book sets one in the midst of the scenes it paints, &Ⓐemendation makes him hope, despair &Ⓐemendation exult by turns, &Ⓐemendation by turns curse &Ⓐemendation blaspheme. I read it when it first came out, &Ⓐemendation am not wholly quieted down yet; neither do I wish to be, for it is wholesome to be stirred, so I shall read it again now.

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