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at first hand

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at first hand
from seeing or experiencing directly. For Carter, the visit was a chance to see at first hand the life and work of someone he admired.
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In those days my experience of life at first hand was small, and it excited me to come upon an incident among people I knew of the same sort as I had read in books.
"You'll never know anything at first hand," he began, almost savagely.
Or, to put it plainer, I am to keep strictly within the limits of my own experience, and am not to inform you of what other persons told me-- for the very sufficient reason that you are to have the information from those other persons themselves, at first hand.
 
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