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Show i To see ourselves as others see us is a gain; but to ee things as they are is almost a greater. Only we ought not to forget that seeing alone is not enough. There must be doing as well; and to know that the cart sticks is not of much use unless we put our shoulder to the wheel to lift it out once more on to the broad highway. In all things diligence, in all energy, in all that kind of common sense which accepts the truth aa it is, makes the best of the bad, and gives its strength to the reparation re-paration of misfortunes and the recovery recov-ery of lost ground everywhere. |