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If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast__ mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people__erhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven__ut still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.
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If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two thousand is too vast__ mean, for the imagination to grasp. While thirty-seven people__erhaps thirty-seven are too many, perhaps seventeen would have been better or even seven__ut still thirty-seven are still within the scope of one's imagination.

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