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" Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Wonder

Youth

Genius

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Rules

Family

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Charm

Greatest

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People

" It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well. "