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Excerpt from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos: Selected From the Works of Ouida
Some said I might have been a learned man, hadi taken more pains. But I think it was only their kindness. I have that twist in my brain, which is the curse of my countrymen - a sort of devilish quickness at doing' well, that prevents us ever doing best; just the same sort of thing that makes our goatherds rhyme per feet sonnets, and keeps them dunces before the alphabet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
