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“He knew he was overfastidious. But how could one write history with Macaulay so close behind? Fiction or poetry, in the midst of the greatest galaxy of talent in the history of English literature? How could one be a creative scientist, with Lyell and Darwin still alive? Be a statesman, with Disraeli and Gladstone polarizing all the available space?
You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.”
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You will see that Charles set his sights high. Intelligent idlers always have, in order to justify their idleness to their intelligence.”
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“Till this moment I never knew myself.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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