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What may appear as a towering peak to one may seem but an ordinary eminence to another.
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Life and Scientific Work of Peter Guthrie Tait: supplementing the two volumes of Scientific papers published in 1898 and 1900. Cambridge University Press. 1911. p. 1-2. 

 

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