A critic once described American writer Edith Wharton as a "self-made man."

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Maybe one could even say Machiavelli's prince is, in a way, the first truly self-made man.

也还更能说,马奇亚维利的君王是，从某一层面看来，第一位真正白手起家的君子。

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