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Perhaps it is that high achievements demand some other unusual qualification besides an unusual desire for high prizes; perhaps it is that these stalwart gentlemen are rather indolent, their divinæ particulum auræ being obstructed from soaring by a too hearty appetite.
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_divinæ particulum auræ_ being obstructed from soaring by a too hearty appetite.
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot 1849
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