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shall play our next game of
I should have been so disappointed—perhaps, after all, we shall play our next game of chess at Christmas with the men I am so lucky with.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

strange prodigality of natural gifts or
Michael Angelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, all fellow-labourers, with many others inferior to these mighty masters, yet whose works are prized by kings and nobles as their most precious treasures—by what strange prodigality of natural gifts, or happy combination of circumstances was so rare an assemblage of genius produced in so short a time?
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

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