Pilocereus senilis and other papers / by Walter Moxon.

  • Moxon, W.
Date:
1887
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Credit: Pilocereus senilis and other papers / by Walter Moxon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    as if I could buy all the nice thing's one after the other, and the sensation was very enjoyable. Is it not the same, too, with the little spare intelligence one carries ? It seems as if one would with it ' get up' all the things that need be known, let alone a lot of shin- ing quotations. But just as the first few purchases open your eyes to the end of your shillings, so when you try to learn what others around you know so extensively and well, then you find what a little stock of spare intellect you really have about you at any time. Here's a melancholy truth !—however you work your few ounces of brains, you will get out of them what Thomson and Johnson got with the few pounds their father left them. One pays in gold, another in brains. And the world will sum you up, not by the mite of store your exhaustion was able to give, but by the scrap it was when cast into the world's treasury. They will take you as they find you, and care nothing at all how you got to be what you are. And you, poor fellow! full of the sympathies for your efforts, which your mother and aunt, and sisters and yourself, and all the little circle which saw you up from your petticoats, have had for the little swell they have seen you puff, you think it hard of the world ; a ' hard,' ' cold,' 'heartless' world. Yes! It is! Not like your mother, and aunt, and sisters, and sympathising self! But don't be donkey
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