Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter VII, Theory of Capital, p. 190.
“An old truth asserts that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Speech at the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1994)
“Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.”
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”
General sources
Source: Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs
“Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.”
At the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815), as quoted by Sir Walter Scott, in Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1815).
“This isn't a diet book. In fact, you may gain 30 pounds just reading it.”
Source: <i>Off the Eaten Path: Second Helpings</i> (2013), p. 7
On Mitski’s epiphany regarding her musical abilities after writing her first song in “Taking All Of Mitski” in Impose https://www.imposemagazine.com/features/mitski-interview
Music and songwriting
“Whether I pound or am being pounded,
all the same there will be moaning!”
Peer Gynt, declaring that no matter what he does, it is not what people want, Act I, Scene I
Peer Gynt (1867)
Section 3, “Lifestyle, Spin, and Soft News” Chapter 23, “Tsongkerclintkinbro Wins” (p. 106)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (1995)
