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There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

Source: Letter, 27 Apr 1843; published in Letters from New York, vol. 1, Letter 39, 1843.
-- Lydia M Child, (Feb 11 1802-1880), US author; Her anti-slavery works had great influence in her time; edited Juvenile Miscellany, 1826-34, the first children's monthly in U.S.

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