1. A serious percentage of books are not worth reading at all.—F. Harrison.
2. After a quarter of an hour’s chipping and hammering with very little result, he paused to rest.—J. Hawthorne.
3. The cat did not like being whipped, and she was still more annoyed at having been caught stealing.—Old Deccan Days.
4. Answering of this question is giving us the soul of the history of the man or nation.—Carlyle.
5. The only drawback to my rejoicing over the finishing of the first hoeing is that the garden now wants hoeing the second time.—Warner.
6. I wonder when Englishmen will learn these hospitable graces. They are worth learning.—Stevenson.
7. What was called governing them meant only wearing fine clothes and living on good fare at their expense.—Ruskin.
8. There are but three ways of living; by working, by stealing or by begging.—Froude.
9. He spent all the day roaming over the house.—Kipling.
10. I believe they find adorning the body a more profitable vocation than adorning the mind.—Miss Mitford.