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Certain Personal Matters - Of Cleverness
In which the narrator reflects on the exhausting brilliance of a certain Mr Crichton, whose relentless cleverness, though dazzling, lacks the dignified simplicity and enduring greatness found in more substantial characters. He contrasts this ceaseless intellectual display with the steady, unyielding presence of his Uncle Augustus, suggesting that true influence and peace may reside not in cleverness but in a certain admirable dulness.
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