The best chessplayer in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind...

The best chessplayer in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe

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From childhoods hour I have not been. As others were I have not seen. As others saw I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved I loved alone.
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The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.
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The best chessplayer in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. Edgar Allan Poe

The best chessplayer in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.
Edgar Allan Poe