They are sick of the woodeny puppetry they dispense, as on a race-course to the roaring frivolous.
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A great modern writer, of clearest eye and head, now departed, capable in activity of presenting thoughtful women, thinking men, groaned over his puppetry, that he dared not animate them, flesh though they were, with the fires of positive brainstuff.
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Still he had no delight in shuffling a puppetry; he would have preferred automatic figures.
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