Average Order

Famous quotes containing the words average and/or order:

    In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    —J.M. (John Millington)

    A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.
    Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)