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Suppose that sometimes he found it impossible to tell the difference between the real men and those which had only the shape of men, and had learned by experience that there were only two ways of telling them apart: first, that these automata never answered in word or sign, except by chance, to questions put to them; and second, that though their movements were often more regular and certain than those of the wisest men, yet in many things which they would have to do to imitate us, they failed more disastrously than the greatest fools.
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