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with the progression of his deafness, wrote in 1801, "I have often cursed my Creator and my existence.  Plutarch has shown me the path of resignation.  If it is at all possible, I will bid defiance to my fate, though I feel that as long as I live there will be moments when I shall be God's most unhappy creature ... Resignation, what a wretched resource!  Yet it is all that is left to me." British General Charles Gordon wrote "Certainly I would make Plutarch's Lives a handbook for our young officers. 

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