The agreeable eye

an eudæmonistarchives

Crambe repetita (11)

The richer the character, the harder and slower in general is its development. 1 Two boys were once of the same class in our Edinburgh school; John ever trim precise and dux, Walter ever slovenly confused and dolt: in due time John became Baillie Waugh, and Walter became Sir Walter Scott.

The quickest and completest of all vegetables is – the Cabbage.

—Thomas Carlyle
Two Notebooks
ca. March 1827 (p. 105)

  1. Cf. Plutarch, Cato Minor, (1.3). []

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