ANTIPATHIES OF GREAT MEN.
It is a natural human trait to desire kinship with great minds, and partly for this reason the world loves to hear of the little weaknesses, inconsistencies, and illogical prejudices of its intellectual giants. The following, then, a carefully-compiled and so far as the writer knows, absolutely authentic list of the antipathies of certain past-masters may prove of general interest : Shakespeare, it seems, disliked a forced abstention from victuals. Lord Chesterfield hated to have the ohair upon which he was just sitting down withdrawn from under him. The Iron Duke (and it may be remarked m passing that Lord Roberts of our own day has a similar aversion) would grow
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Evening Star, Issue 11892, 21 May 1903, Page 7
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114ANTIPATHIES OF GREAT MEN. Evening Star, Issue 11892, 21 May 1903, Page 7
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