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Er aber, der von jeher seine Mußestunden mit historischer und literarischer Lektüre ausgefüllt hatte, der sich seiner gesamten Umgebung an Geist, Verstand und innerer wie äußerer Bildung überlegen fühlte, er verwand nicht den Ärger darüber, daß das Fehlen der ordnungsmäßigen Qualifikationen es ihm unmöglich machte, in dem kleinen Reich, in das er hineingeboren, die erste Stelle einzunehmen.
Because he had occupied his leisure time with reading works of literature and history, he had always felt that, compared with those around him, he was superior in intelligence, common sense, personal development, and cultural refinement; and so he could not get over his annoyance that his lack of conventional qualifications made it impossible for him to achieve the highest position available in the little world into which he had been born.
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