Transcending Magic
To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.
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Context: He remembers the moment he first saw where his research could lead.
Not in a duel yet
Source: Chapter XIX, “Certain first Principles”