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...“I’m not going to argue with you that they’re not appreciable sums of money,” said Andrew Cooper, clerk of Epsom Downs, of the fees required to enter the race....
...Within a few months, 250 company clerks backed by the military force of 20,000 locally recruited Indian soldiers had become the effective rulers of the richest Mughal provinces....
...So quipped the late, great physicist Richard Feynman in the 1960s — and his words feel just as fresh today....
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