Essays, Critical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous (Classic Reprint)

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Curves. There, say the old ladies, imitate him who is placed upon a pyramid's apex, and touches the sky, but genius laughs at this mockery of the soul. Few men know the secret of every other man's success. It is strange that.

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