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“Don’t believe that,” said Fagin. “When a man’s his own enemy,
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careful for everybody but himself. Pooh! pooh! There ain’t such a
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“There oughtn’t to be, if there is,” replied Mr. Bolter.
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number three is the magic number, and some say number seven.
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