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Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?
Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?
Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1834 AD · industrial
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