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The truth of what I have so often inculcated, that it is the "steady, painstaking, likely-to-do-good" man who in the long run wins the race against those who now and then give a brilliant flash and, as Shakespeare says, "straight are cold again".

— Charles Dodgson The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898)

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The Translator has purposefully abstained from the use of any previous translation, in order to give his own view of the meaning unbiased.

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