[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought into a pregnant word or phrase, and sends it ringing through the ages!
William Mathews (1874). “Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life”, p.93, Belford Bros.
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