Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian. Alfred Richard Orage More Quotes by Alfred Richard Orage More Quotes From Alfred Richard Orage The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. Alfred Richard Orage observation inability perspective Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. Alfred Richard Orage envy jealousy dragons