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“I verily believe that buttoning himself up in so downy and blanket-like a coat had a pernicious effect upon him; upon the same principle that too much oats are bad for horses. In fact, precisely as a rash, restive horse is said to feel his oats, so Turkey felt his coat. It made him insolent. He was a man whom prosperity harmed.”
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Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
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Nippers; I always deemed him the victim of two evil powers—ambition and indigestion.
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Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but in the cool tranquility of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men’s bonds and mortgages and title-deeds.
— Nov 04, 2026 07:25AM
I am one of those unambitious lawyers who never addresses a jury, or in any way draws down public applause; but in the cool tranquility of a snug retreat, do a snug business among rich men’s bonds and mortgages and title-deeds.