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As Stevenson so mournfully put it, that is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect,and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.

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As Stevenson so mournfully put it, that is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect,and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes.

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