It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Great Expectations
A man of limited vision is hard to bear with in any sphere in which he is invested with power, but intolerable in the army. Beware of Pity
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. The Remarkable Rocket
Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? Day's Collacon
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