William R. Alger

Puzzles

• The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and ___.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to William R. Alger?

  • → You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
  • → Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
  • → There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
  • → Public opinion is a second conscience.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to William R. Alger.

  • → No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
  • → He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men.
  • → Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
  • → Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to William R. Alger.

  • → The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
  • → There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
  • → I know my place in life, and my place is not last, for I refuse to fall in line.
  • → Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
  
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• One of these may be attributed to William R. Alger. Which one?

  • → You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
  • → Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
  • → Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
  • → No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
  
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• Which one of these belongs to William R. Alger?

  • → Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
  • → The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
  • → Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
  • → When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
  
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• Can you identify the right quote belonging to William R. Alger?

  • → Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
  • → Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
  • → The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.
  • → A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
  
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