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less urgent claim upon me and
It cannot easily be compressed within letter limits; I will, nevertheless, attempt it when my lectures make less urgent claim upon me, and my eyes are less fatigued.
— from Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz

let us call up mirth and
Come, my brother, added she in transport, let us call up mirth and joy; we have at last found what we have been so long looking for!
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

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