Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


He never achieved super-excellence at anything. Big Charley Everson
drank him down at the beer busts. Harrison Jackson, at hammer-
throwing, always exceeded his best by twenty feet. Carruthers out-
pointed him at boxing. Anson Burge could always put his shoulders to
the mat, two out of three, but always only by the hardest work. In
English composition a fifth of his class excelled him. Edlin, the
Russian Jew, out-debated him on the contention that property was
robbery. Schultz and Debret left him with the class behind in higher
mathematics; and Otsuki, the Japanese, was beyond all comparison with
him in chemistry.

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