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"Ah! not long, bright Sweet Water, did we refrain thy tempting embrace: Thou wert a Lethe to the desert behind; all illusion faded from the delightful realities of thy bath."
--August 1852 Scenes Beyond the Western Border;
and Scenes and Adventures in the Army
"Come, this little episode of fictitious estrangement will but enhance the delightful reality." --Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man
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