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Benjamin Disraeli
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What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (1875). Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales, p.17
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What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals? ✨ Benjamin Disraeli (1875). Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales, p.17

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