Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character, would
It was the face of a nonreligious ascetic, capable of enduring hardship and pain beyond what most men would even want to contemplate, a true believer in other people’s causes, a curious combination of...
My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his
The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.
This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to educate myself: it is an exploration into the unknown - 'a journey without maps,' to borrow Graham Gree...
Citizens of Rome might boast that the claim of 'Civus romanus sum' set them apart from barbarians and slaves, and it was true up to a point, but Roman citizens lived in a society that accepted pain, c...
This night, however, she surprised me by getting down on her poor old knees (as she always referred to them) beside me and told me to pray with her for the safety of the British Army in France. Her ow...
Howeitat, Auda’s own tribe, where they were feasted with one of those lavish meals that Lawrence loathed so much: hot grease and pieces of mutton on a bed of rice, decorated with the singed heads of t...
When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your h...
Even those who die in terrorist attacks, and have thus had the bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, are described as heroes, though given a choice most of them would no doubt have pref...
Across some of the harshest and most difficult terrain in the world, led by a man who already had a price on his head.
It must be nice, Queenie thought, to be one thing or another, to know where you belonged.
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at...
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.
It was soul-destroying work, apt to turn anyone cynical, for the sad, awful truth was that there was hardly any evidence at all of talent in the slush pile and plenty of proof, for those who needed it...
Like any man who has two masters with opposing interests, he was torn between them.
Ask a book publisher how many copies a book has sold, and he or she, presuming you’re not the author, will probably try to remember the size of the first printing, then double it. If you’re the author...
It is a reflection of a well-known social problem during the Victorian age, when female servants were often made pregnant by the master of the house or one of his sons.
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