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I would love to have seen him using the ladder to climb onto his horse. I wonder how the horse felt about that.

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Now I want to read a novel where the encyclopedist Bell meets the lexicographer Samuel Johnson (who, at 5’9” was hugely tall for his era), and the two have a verbal duel of quips!

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Just wow. Is there anything you don't know at least a little bit about?

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How could I resist a man whose nose was like a baked potato and who founded the Encyclopedia Britannica?

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