"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from."
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Source: A Daughter of Eve. Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.
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