Action Quote by Joseph Jacobs

“The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.” quote by Joseph Jacobs — Download Open image

“The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.”

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In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella' and kindred stories showing how widespread this particular formula was throughout Europe and how substantially identical the various incidents as reproduced in each particular country.

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“Then she took the heart and liver of the little girl, and she stewed them and brought them into the house for supper. The husband tasted them and shook his head. He said they tasted very strangely. She gave some to the little boy, but he would not eat. She tried to force him, but he refused, and ran out…

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The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term…

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The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.

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Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.

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Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their…

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Certainly there is abundant evidence of the early transmission by literary means of a considerable number of drolls and folk-tales from India about the…

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Nowhere else is there so large and consistent a body of oral tradition about the national and mythical heroes as amongst the Gaels.

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Every place but that in which one is born is equally strange and wondrous. Once beyond the bounds of the city walls, and none…

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One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely…

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Children, and sometimes those of larger growth, will not read dialect.

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The first two crusades brought the flower of European chivalry to Constantinople and restored that spiritual union between Eastern and Western Christendom that had…

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