"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1950). “Pere Goriot and Eugenie Grandet”
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