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The true Genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular underline direction. /underline --Johnson

he would make his fate his choice, were underline he free to /underline choose.--

I looked round the World as on a vast desert, --I considered myself as a blasted Tree whose branches could afford no shade to others & bear no blossoms to myself, memory was my underline tormentor /underline

A Veteran in the school of adversity, I have suffered deeply, --yet I view not man with an angry Eye--pity for their misfortunes is my 1st Sensation, --contempt for the Errors which generate them in my 2d.--