"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day."
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Source: Honore de Balzac (1899). “The Muse of the Department”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
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