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If ever any system of privilege and enforced subjection had its yoke tightly riveted on the necks of those who are kept down by it, this has.
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Her power often gives her what she has no right to, but does not enable her to assert her own rights.
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The end had ceased to charm, and how could there ever again be any interest in the means?
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But the time came when I awakened from this as from a dream.
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A night's sleep, the sovereign remedy for the smaller vexations of life, had no effect on it.
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At first I hoped that the cloud would pass away of itself; but it did not.
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At this my heart sank within me: the whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.