The Talleyrand Maxim
Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920
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The “Talleyrand Maxim” holds that “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf is turned into satin.” The adage has the character of guidance for life for an ambitious legal clerk, Linford Pratt. Unlike most people, he decides to take extreme measures to get what he believes is his due.
First sentence: Linford Pratt, senior clerk to Eldrick & Pascoe, solicitors, of Barford, a young man who earnestly desired to get on in life, by hook or by crook, with no objection whatever to crookedness, so long as it could be performed in safety and secrecy, had once during one of his periodical visit to the town Reference Library, lighted on a maxim of that other unscrupulous person, Prince Talleyrand, which
Book details
- Year
- 1920
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- IndyPublish.com
- Editions
- 113
- Pages
- 216
- ISBN
- 9781414272047
Data source: Wikidata
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