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It is always in a time when one's attention is at the sharpest strain, when innumerable details are separately and clearly grasped by the mind, and, in a word, when the external circumstance of life is most real to us that the comic contrast between ourselves and the greatness outside us can best be appreciated.
We humans make all that present which is never there, and which is always hurrying past us like the tumble of a stream, an all-important thing.