"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no mercy on the faults of other people; but it has also a sublime faith in them."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1899). “The Muse of the Department”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
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