Charles Buxton - Failure means that you would not, or could not, pa

Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

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Buxton, Charles. Notes of Thought. John Murray, 1873.

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