Cloister and the Hearth at Project Gutenberg

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great
deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.

Opening line from Charles Reade's Cloister and the Hearth

Cobbett's Advice to Young Men at Project Gutenberg

"It is the duty, and ought to be the pleasure, of age and experience
to warn and instruct youth and to come to the aid of inexperience. When
sailors have discovered rocks or breakers, and have had the good luck to
escape with life from amidst them, they, unless they be pirates or
barbarians as well as sailors, point out the spots for the placing of
buoys and of lights, in order that others may not be exposed to the
danger which they have so narrowly escaped. What man of common humanity,
having, by good luck, missed being engulfed in a quagmire or quicksand,
will withhold from his neighbours a knowledge of the peril without which
the dangerous spots are not to be approached?"

Introduction, Advice to Young Men by William Cobbett

I vote that more advice manuals should place such emphasis on pirates and quicksand

Hardly Tetrazzini....