The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there  wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to  dream before; Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--
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