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Alexandre Dumas

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapp

Alexandre Dumas

Alone

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He was deeply focused on figuring out how to control a powerful force that was multiplied four times, believing it could achieve an extraordinary result. He compared this challenge to Archimedes' famous idea of using a lever to move the world, showing his confidence in the force's potential.

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