"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1899). “The Muse of the Department”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
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