But while in these first years the prospects of success are apt to seem remote and high hopes seem doomed to frustration, the worst thing to do is to… - Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

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But while in these first years the prospects of success are apt to seem remote and high hopes seem doomed to frustration, the worst thing to do is to eat one's heart out in idleness. There are many occupations which can be devised to improve one's fitness to profit by the chance when it does come.

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About Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan

Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (20 February 1873 – 5 September 1952) was a Scottish advocate and judge

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Alternative Names: Hugh Pattison Macmillan
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The erection of a great public building in any city almost always engenders controversy. The maxim that there can be no disputing about matters of taste seldom deters an eager host of critics, informed and uninformed, from rushing into print. But the new buildings of London University have had the good fortune to rise undisturbed by the clamours of contention and indeed with a degree of public approval which must be almost unprecedented... I have found, as a matter of experience, that the gravamen of complaints about any public scheme may generally be found to reside not in its intrinsic demerits but in the fact that the objectors were not consulted about it.

In those days there were no Scottish Q.C.s or K.C.s, though it was customary to confer the rank of Queen's Counsel on the Lord Advocate of the day by admitting him to the English roll of silks... the Scottish roll of Queen's Counsel was instituted... in 1897.

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