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“We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought.”
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- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.60
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 4949f3d7e76987d23acd2c9735214c7abd1b8d6c9ba4aabfe016687bebeac1c0
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