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understanding

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understanding
Philosophy archaic the mind, esp the faculty of reason


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I am disposed to admire and respect the 52-foot linear raters on the word of a man who regrets in such a sympathetic and understanding spirit the threatened decay of yachting seamanship.
And, ere I begin, I must ask the reader to walk with me in all sympathy; and, since sympathy is merely understanding, begin by understanding me and whom and what I write about.
To-day he speaks true one way, to-morrow he speaks true another way, and there is no understanding him nor his way.
 
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