hard-earned

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Heroes are men, and man is heav'n knows what, A yea, and else a nay, a Gordian riddle, An Alexander perhaps may cut the knot Some future day, and thus, just in the middle Of all our ruminatings on our lot, Show us that all our reasoning is but fiddle Faddle, and all our boasted hard-earned knowledge, Is even less than what I learnt at college. Heroes are more than men; mine's more than any.

Various - L'Illustration, No. 0012, 20 Mai 1843