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The partners, and the clerks, with whom I had for so many years, and for so many hours in each day of the year, been closely associated--being suddenly removed from them--they seemed as dead to me.
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it seems to me that the Muses aided our old writers to complete their finest and most esteemed works by calling in exile as a fellow-worker