There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point. – Charles Horton Cooley

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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. – John Dryden

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Sometimes you wonder how you got on this mountain. But sometimes you wonder, How will I get off? – Joan Manley

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