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All The Inducements Of Early Society Tend To Foster Immediate Action; All Its Penalties Fall On The Man Who Pauses; The Traditional Wisdom Of Those Times Was Never Weary Of Inculcating That "delays Are Dangerous," And That The Sluggish Man The Man "who Roasteth Not That Which He Took In Hunting" Will Not Prosper On The Earth, And Indeed Will Very Soon Perish Out Of It. And In Consequence An Inability To Stay Quiet, An Irritable Desire To Act Directly, Is One Of The Most Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

A Man's Mother Is His Misfortune, But His Wife Is His Fault.

One Cannot Make Men Good By Act Of Parliament.

Life Is A School Of Probability.

Our Law Very Often Reminds One Of Those Outskirts Of Cities Where You Cannot For A Long Time Tell How The Streets Come To Wind About In So Capricious And Serpent-like A Manner. At Last It Strikes You That They Grew Up, House By House, On The Devious Tracks Of The Old Green Lanes; And If You Follow On To The Existing Fields, You May Often Find The Change Half Complete.