"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward really wicked people for the evil they refrain from committing."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria
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