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"text": "Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton.",
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"text": "July 12, 1816, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval Monticello\nA departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second, that second for a third, and so on 'til the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering."
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