sham-success

Updated: May 3, 2025

Forget that, thou hast forgotten all. Success will never more attend thee: how can it now? Thou hast the whole Universe against thee. No more success: mere sham-success, for a day and days; rising ever higher, towards its Tarpeian Rock.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III