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If i venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... i have done a deed which shakes the moon in her path, which causes the sun to be no longer the sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.
-Edgar Allan Poe
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If I Venture To Displace ... The

Edgar Allan Poe
If i venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... i have done a deed which shakes the moon in her path, which causes the sun to be no longer the sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.
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