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Maynards' idea of playing were by no
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in the morning sunshine, the four ... from the ground to the low step of the
swing.
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gangplank drawn in, and the ship started.
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consume; but for the common run of men
as a motive in the creation of wealth, it is
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the land and wood; the food of the serpent,
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their own kind,—that even these, though
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Itself.
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voice, ... Eden -by-
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