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  • Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

(Location 258)

  • Even a potato in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead.

(Location 2420)

  • May not man himself become a sort of parasite upon the machines? An affectionate machine-tickling aphid?

(Location 2486)

  • Man has now many extra-corporeal members, which are of more importance to him than a good deal of his hair, or at any rate than his whiskers. His memory goes in his pocket-book.

(Location 2757)

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