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| | Jack London: Star Rover |
 | | It was close, sharp work in the dim light of the stars, and it was a mercy the boat was not overturned. |
 | | And here, at the end of it all, I pore over books of astronomy from the prison library, such as they allow condemned men to read, and learn that even the heavens are passing fluxes, vexed with star-driftage as the earth is by the drifts of men. |
 | | I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars. |
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