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Here He Comes, Big with Statistics

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Here he comes, big with statistics, Troubled and sharp about fac’s. He has heap of the Form that is thinkable⁠— The stuff that is feeling, he lacks.
Do you envy this whiskered absurdity, With pince-nez and clerical tie? Poor fellow, he’s blind of a sympathy! I’d rather be blind of an eye.

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