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WONDER

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand...By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. - Following the Equator

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