Note 217 — Chapter XXVII
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“The trace of Marlborough’s neglected education was seen to the last in his reluctance to write. ‘Of all things,’ he said to his wife, ‘I do not love writing.’ To pen a despatch, indeed, was a far greater trouble to him than to plan a campaign. But nature had given him qualities which in other men spring specially from culture. His capacity for business was immense.”—“Green’s Short History of the English People,” p. 691.—Ed.