For know you, child, I have that faculty which is better than any one sense, better than a perfect body, better than courage and will, better than experience, ordinarily the best product of the longest livesthe faculty divinest of men, but whichhe stopped, and laughed again, not bitterly, but with real zestbut which even the great do not sufficiently account, while with the herd it is a non-existentthe faculty of drawing men to my purpose and holding them faithfully to its achievement, by which, as against things to be done, I multiply myself into hundreds and thousands.
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