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"text": "After a dismal few months my life at long last changed for the better.",
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"text": "\"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make,\" said Jim, \"but I was at Winchester and New College.\" ¶ \"That will do,\" said Mackenzie. \"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]\"",
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