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"Here was a man some twenty thousand miles from home... thrown among people as strange to him as though he were in the planet Jupiter; and yet he seemed entirely at his ease; preserving the utmost serenity; content with his own companionship; always equal to himself. Surely this was a touch of fine philosophy... perhaps, to be true philosophers, we mortals should not be conscious of so living or so striving."