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   {
    "text": "Is reform needed? is it through you?",
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    "text": "The greater the reform needed, the greater the Personality you need to accomplish it.",
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    "text": "You! do you not see how it would serve to have eyes, blood, complexion, clean and sweet?",
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    "text": "Do you not see how it would serve to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impress’d with your Personality?",
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  [
   {
    "text": "O the magnet! the flesh over and over!",
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   {
    "text": "Go, dear friend, if need be give up all else, and commence to-day to inure yourself to pluck, reality, self-esteem, definiteness, elevatedness,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Rest not till you rivet and publish yourself of your own Personality.",
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