How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than 60 years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Source: In Pearls of Wisdom, ed. J. Agel and W. Glanze, 1987.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith, ( 1865-1946), US-English essayist, editor, anthologist; He was a defender of the traditional English language and literary values; wrote Milton and His Modern Critics, 1940.