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Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther. – Thomas Hood

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But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind? – Thomas Hood

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