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Rudyard Kipling's 1886 poem General Summary, introductory of his first published collection of poetry, describes how favoritism has always governed advancement
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Rudyard Kipling's 1886 poem General Summary, introductory of his first published collection of poetry, describes how favoritism has always governed advancement
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.