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builder’s hand and bows his head so it touches his brother’s head, and so they keep from falling.

That is, the stones of domes stand shoulder to shoulder so as not to fall.

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The unique being at the centre of the conical successive chain from the smallest indivisible particle to man and from man to the sun of suns, is man the ennobled.

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Man possesses senses other than the well-known ones; he has an impelling sense like the sense of taste, and a sense of longing. He possesses too numerous unconscious senses.

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Sometimes desire takes the form of thought, and the greedy person supposes an animal desire to be thought.

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It is strange but some people fall into stinking mud, then to deceive themselves say it is musk and ambergris, and smear it over their faces.

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The martyr is a saint. While being an obligation that if a number of the community undertake it, the rest

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