Family of Humfrey of Xanth - Humboldt

Humboldt

He is Humfrey's older brother and introduced in Question Quest.

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    Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
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    Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.
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