Armin Vambery 
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His Life and Adventures

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. I had then been attending school for about three years; and as my teachers were lavish in their praises of my extraordinary memory, enabling me to learn by heart, with great ease, almost anything, even passages in Latin which I did not understand at all, I thought of going on with the pursuit Of my studies, in order to become a physician or lawyer, — the two professions which, at that time, were considered in the rural parts of Hungary as the goal of the most exalted ambition of an educated man.