Subject: Success
Quote: “I attribute my success entirely to my habits of early rising, frugal living, and methodical habits.”
Character: Sir Oswald Coote
Chapter/Story: 1—On Early Rising
Book Title/Copyright: The Seven Dials Mystery, 1929 Subject: Unhappy Successes
Quote: “He’s just one of the usual unhappy successes…. Most successes are unhappy. That’s why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice…. The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves that they don’t give a damn.”
Character: Anthony Browne
Chapter/Story: 3
Book Title/Copyright: Remembered Death (Sparkling Cyanide), 1945
