Date: 1859
"No dust has settled on one's mind then [at breakfast-time], and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things."
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Date: 1859
"But you must have perceived long ago that I have no such lofty vocation, and that I aspire to give no more than a faithful account of men and things as they have mirrored themselves in my mind."
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