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poor relation of Sir Evas till
Just a poor relation of Sir Evas, till I got a lot of money left to me by the dearest old General.
— from Harum Scarum's Fortune by Esmè Stuart

present range of sensuous experience that
It is this beginning at a point, and expanding to the immense disk of our present range of sensuous experience, that gives to them so prodigious an illusory perspective, and makes us in childhood, measuring futurity by them, form so wild and exaggerated an estimate of the duration of human life.
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

perhaps requires one sublime effort to
"Of what importance is it who I am," the unknown remarked, calmly, "if I succeed in persuading you that all is far from being lost—that the liberty which you believe for ever destroyed has never been so near triumphing, and that it only perhaps requires one sublime effort to recover it!"
— from The Adventurers by Gustave Aimard

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