Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 422

"The way by which thoughts, or chance suggestions, enter into the minds of men, is sometimes passing strange! They may be the offspring of wayward fancy; or they may be the whisperings from a higher source. To the latter cause I am willing to attribute the idea which flashed across my mind during the present year to give to the public something beyond the bare outline of the scheme, in which, for years, many of them have taken a warm personal interest.

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Locator：Excerpt 422 · Verified：2026-10-19 · Verification：Short excerpt

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