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Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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- Wendell Phillips
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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