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Then are we nobody, too?
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I don't even know that.
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Nor whether you happen to be somebody, either?
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I am still more ignorant of that, by a good deal.
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What an uncertainty! But, tell me, what do you want with these balances?
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I weigh arguments in them and get them even, and when I see them exactly equal and of the same weight, then I am ignorant which is the truer.
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What else are you clever at?
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Everything, except chasing a runaway slave.
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Why can't you do that?
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Because, good sir, I never appresee. hend.
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Of course. You do seem to be a slow, dull person. But what is the aim of your science?
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Ignorance; neither to hear nor to apprehend.
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You mean, then, to be blind and deaf?
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Yes, and incapable of judgment and sensation, and, in a word, the double of an earthworm.
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I must buy you for that. How much do you say he is worth?
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Twenty dollars.
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Here it is. What have you to say, fellow? Have I bought you?
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Doubtful.
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Not at all. I have purchased you and paid the money.
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I suspend my judgment about it and consider.
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You will follow me, as my slave should.
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Who knows whether you are telling the truth?
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The salesman and the eighteen dollars and the by-standers.
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Are there, then, any standing by?
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I will clap you into the mill in a moment, and persuade you by a vicious argument that I am your master.
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Suspend your judgment about that.
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No, by Heaven, I have formed my opinion already!
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Here, stop your resistance and follow your purchaser. We will summon you again to-morrow, for we are going to put up the lives of the private citizens and artisans and tradesfolk.
