No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.
Alec-TweedieAdversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Alec-TweedieThe most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
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