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The Man Who Was Thursday

CHAPTER II
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I was nabbed again.

At last I went in despair to the President of the Central Anarchist Council, who is the greatest man in Europe." "What is his name ?" asked Syme.
"You would not know it," answered Gregory.

"That is his greatness.
Caesar and Napoleon put all their genius into being heard of, and they were heard of.

He puts all his genius into not being heard of, and he is not heard of.

But you cannot be for five minutes in the room with him without feeling that Caesar and Napoleon would have been children in his hands." He was silent and even pale for a moment, and then resumed-- "But whenever he gives advice it is always something as startling as an epigram, and yet as practical as the Bank of England.


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