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Hence the cogitation and abstraction you found me in, and reason enough, what you have heard from me."Hearing this, my friend, giving himself a slap on the forehead and breaking into a hearty laugh, exclaimed,"Before God, Brother, now am I disabused of an error in which I have been living all this long time I have known you, all through which I have taken you to be shrewd and sensible in all you do; but now I see you are as far from that as the heaven is from the earth.