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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied,
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"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door"

- Alexandre Dumas

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Alexandre Dumas This quote is written / told by Alexandre Dumas between July 24, 1802 and December 5, 1870. He was a famous Dramatist from France. The author also have 17 other quotes.

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