[The Colossus by Opie Read]@TWC D-Link bookThe Colossus CHAPTER X 13/17
I shouldn't think that education consists in committing a few rules to memory." "No, Caroline, not in the committing of a thousand rules to memory, but without rule there is no complete education." "I shouldn't think that there could be a complete education anyway," she rejoined, in a tone which Henry knew was meant in defense of himself. "Of course not," said the merchant, and turning from the subject as from something that could interest him but little, he again took up the newspaper project.
"We'll investigate that matter to-morrow, and if you are still determined to go into it, the sooner the better.
My own opinion is that you will soon get tired of it, in view of the better advantages that I urge upon you, for the worries of an experimental concern will serve to strengthen my proposal." "I am resolved that in the end it shall cost you nothing," Henry replied. "Hum, we'll see about that.
But whatever you do, do it earnestly, for a failure in one line does not argue success in another direction.
In business it is well to beware of men who have failed.
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