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Familiar Quotations

Ladders

All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.–Anonymous

Humility is the ladder to divine understanding.–Anonymous

Some people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it is leaning against the wrong wall.–Anonymous

Success is a ladder that can not be climbed with your hands in your pockets.–Anonymous

The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.–Anonymous

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.–Saint Augustine

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.–Napoleon Hill

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.–Clare Booth Luce

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.–Paul Meyer

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.–Donny Osmond

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Ladders 1
• Ladders – "Run" 2
• Ladders – "Scale" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Ladders 4
• Ladders – "Above" 13
• Ladders – "Ascended" 14
• Ladders – "Being" 16
• Ladders – "Best" 16
• Ladders – "Boys" 17
• Ladders – "Building" 17
• Ladders – "Call" 18
• Ladders – "Captain" 18
• Ladders – "Carrying" 19
• Ladders – "Climbed" 19
• Ladders – "Close" 23
• Ladders – "Coming" 23
• Ladders – "Companion" 26
• Ladders – "Cut" 26
• Ladders – "Day" 27
• Ladders – "Descending" 27
• Ladders – "Done" 29
• Ladders – "Draw" 30
• Ladders – "Dreamed" 30
• Ladders – "End" 31
• Ladders – "Fall" 32
• Ladders – "Father" 32
• Ladders – "Foot" 33
• Ladders – "Felt" 35
• Ladders – "Few" 36
• Ladders – "Fixed" 37
• Ladders – "Forward" 37
• Ladders – "Found" 38
• Ladders – "Go" 39
• Ladders – "Gone" 40
• Ladders – "Great" 41
• Ladders – "Ground" 42
• Ladders – "Hand" 42
• Ladders – "Having" 44
• Ladders – "Head" 44
• Ladders – "Heard" 45
• Ladders – "Heavy" 46
• Ladders – "Helping" 47
• Ladders – "Holding" 47
• Ladders – "Hooked" 48
• Ladders – "House" 48
• Ladders – "Large" 49
• Ladders – "Leading" 50
• Ladders – "Life" 51
• Ladders – "Little" 52
• Ladders – "Look" 53
• Ladders – "Lose" 55
• Ladders – "Made" 55
• Ladders – "Man" 58
• Ladders – "Means" 63
• Ladders – "Minute" 64
• Ladders – "Mount" 64
• Ladders – "Near" 66
• Ladders – "Night" 67
• Ladders – "Once" 67
• Ladders – "Opening" 68
• Ladders – "Party" 69
• Ladders – "People" 69
• Ladders – "Placed" 70
• Ladders – "Present" 72
• Ladders – "Reached" 72
• Ladders – "Ready" 75
• Ladders – "Room" 75
• Ladders – "Rope" 76
• Ladders – "Run" 78
• Ladders – "Ran" 78
• Ladders – "Saying" 79
• Ladders – "Scale" 80
• Ladders – "Side" 81
• Ladders – "Soon" 83
• Ladders – "Standing" 84
• Ladders – "Steps" 85
• Ladders – "Story" 87
• Ladders – "Think" 87
• Ladders – "Thus" 89
• Ladders – "Tried" 90
• Ladders – "Walk" 90
• Ladders – "Wall" 90
• Ladders – "Wanted" 92
• Ladders – "Watched" 92
• Ladders – "Window" 93
• Ladders – "Work" 94
• Ladders – "Youngest" 95
• Nonfiction Usage 96
• Lyrical Usage 96
• Journalism Usage 96
• Legal Usage 99
• Governmental Usage 99
• Patent Usage 99
• Bibliographic Usage 106
• Encyclopedic Usage 136
• Lexicographic Usage 144
• Index 170