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And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.

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Master Nicholas, the village barber, however, used to say that neither of them came up to the Knight of Phoebus, and that if there was any that could compare with him it was Don Galaor, the brother of Amadis of Gaul, because he had a spirit that was equal to every occasion, and was no finikin knight, nor lachrymose like his brother, while in the matter of valour he was not a whit behind him.

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Alarmists who would impose the Kyoto Treaty care not a whit that, if all treaty signatories actually met its goals, the result would likely be only a 0.02 degree C reduction in the globe's temperature by 2050, at the cost of a 2-3 point reduction of the GDP in the United States, or the equivalent of a recession each year.