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"Only the mediocre are always at their best." – Jean Giraudoux
"Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward." – Abraham Verghese, 'Cutting for Stone'.
"For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail." – Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack' (June 1758).
"Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches in the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed…
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