"The attempt to better one's condition is always praiseworthy; but it is only base and ignoble to attempt to cover one's condition with an idle smack of something larger."
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Ik Marvel
Donald Grant Mitchell (April 12, 1822 – December 15, 1908), was an American essayist and novelist who used the pseudonym .
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