Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Avi
Read between
September 3 - September 5, 2025
In Which I Introduce Myself after Which I Immediately Plunge into a Desperate Situation.
the belief that the world had no sympathy for sorrow. “People care nothing for suffering,”
“To get on you must mask your heart with false smiles.”
“The law is king,”
“A man should be known, not by his friends but by his enemies.”
“I have not been a good parent. I promise to do better.” Beware the sinner who continually repents; the more he repents, the greater his need for repentance. So it was Father often repented. He did not change.
English law, as I often had heard my father say, was only about the protection of property.
He who has suffered little, suffers most when little things happen.
a man should be known not by his friends but by his enemies.
“When those who lose at life suffer defeat at cards or other games, they would rather accuse the winner of cheating than acknowledge their own weak play.”
The Poorhouse and How It Strove to Make Me, Among Other Children, a Better Person.
too often people make the most ambitious plans when they are least capable of achieving them.
Punish a child and he will be angry. Humiliate a child and he will remember forever.
Hark! I hear the sound of coaches! The hour of attack approaches, To your arms, brave boys, and load. See the ball I hold! Let the alchemists toil like asses, Our fire their fire surpasses, And turns all our lead to gold!
‘Nothing in the world is more generously shared than unhappiness.’
“People care nothing for suffering. To get on you must mask your heart with false smiles.”
The Beggar’s Opera, by John Gay, first performed in 1728,
continuing adventures of Oliver Cromwell Pitts in The End of the World and Beyond by AVI
