C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Preferment
It is the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation, when each second stood heir to the first.
Shakespeare.
C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
It is the curse of service; preferment goes by letter and affection, not by the old gradation, when each second stood heir to the first.