"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.102, Library of Alexandria
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