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The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the…
Quote byEdward Bulwer-Lytton · 1803–1873
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Lucretia (1846), Part II, Chapter XII.
English (original)
The most useless creature that ever yawned at a club, or counted the vermin on his rags under the suns of Calabria, has no excuse for want of intellect. What men want is not talent, it is purpose,—in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labour.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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