James Gould Cozzens

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

– James Gould Cozzens –

The Just and the Unjust

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Plunged up to the ears in work, good friend!” thought Oblomov as he watched him depart. “Yes, and blind and deaf and dumb to everything else in the world! Yet by going into society and, at the same time, busying yourself about your affairs you will yet win distinction and promotion. Such is what they call ‘a career’! Yet of how little use is a man like that! His intellect, his will, his feelings–what do they avail him? So many luxuries is what they are–nothing more.Such an individual lives out his little span without achieving a single thing worth mentioning; and meanwhile he works in an office from morning till night–yes, from morning till night, poor wretch!

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