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What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. - [Difficulties] About ten o'clock one Sunday morning, the dazzling sunbeams irradiating a dismal back attic in one of the courts adjoining Oxford Street, London, at length awoke a young man lying in bed. - 10,000 a Year (ch. 1), later abridged version by Cyrus Brady titled Tittlebat Titmouse [Books (First Lines)]
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