"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain." ― F. Scott Fitzgerald Topic(s): Great More From F. Scott Fitzgerald "The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young." "Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art." "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." More In Great "Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."― Phillips Brooks "When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."― Francis Bacon "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."― Epictetus