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doubt thy veracity, yet inconsistencies cannot both be true."
"Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but, imputed to man, they may both be true. Yet diversity is not inconsistency. My father might expect a time of greater security. However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he, whose real wants are supplied, must admit those of fancy."
"This, said the prince, I can in some measure conceive. I repent that I interrupted thee."
"With this hope, proceeded Imlac, he sent me to school; but when I had once found the delight of knowledge,
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