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a difficult experience — especially one involving hard work or pain
- Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow....Chapter 3 (37% in)
- But he never fell into the error of arresting his intellectual development by any formal acceptance of creed or system, or of mistaking, for a house in which to live, an inn that is but suitable for the sojourn of a night, or for a few hours of a night in which there are no stars and the moon is in travail.Chapter 11 (31% in)
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