Word: struldbrugs
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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...informed as people think, I am not below the average in political capacity ... I am no more fit to rule millions of men than a boy of twelve. Physically I am failing: my senses, my locomotive powers, my memory, are decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred...
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