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    "text": "All you are doing and saying is to America dangled mirages,",
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    "text": "You have not learn’d of Nature⁠—of the politics of Nature you have not learn’d the great amplitude, rectitude, impartiality,",
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    "text": "You have not seen that only such as they are for these States,",
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    "text": "And that what is less than they must sooner or later lift off from these States.",
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