As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn...


Lacon; or, Many Things in a Few Words (p. 345), William Gowans. 1849

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor...

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor...

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor...

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor...