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“A flight of stairs leads up to the dwelling-rooms. I had never seen Paul Morphy, but I knew the moment he stood quietly before me, simply dressed, slight, smooth and melancholy-faced, with a head and brow overhanging with their own weight. So full of dignity, so empty of self-consciousness, was his presence, that I was almost prepared by it for the quick answer he made me that he was but an amateur,”
― David Lawson, Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess

“Benjamin Franklin (his Morals of Chess”
― David Lawson, Paul Morphy: The Pride and Sorrow of Chess