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Edgar Allan Poe - The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)

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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

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Had the routine of our life at this place been known to the world, we should have been regarded as madmen —; although, perhaps, as madmen of a harmless nature.

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Born: January 19, 1809
Died: October 7, 1849 (aged 40)
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