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When I Read the Book.

Part of the cluster INSCRIPTIONS.

WHEN I READ THE BOOK.

WHEN I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any man really knew aught of my life, Why even I myself I often think know little or nothing of my real  
 life, Only a few hints, a few diffused faint clews and indirections I seek for my own use to trace out here.)

Part of the cluster INSCRIPTIONS.

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