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Experience has always shown, and reason shows, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.
From things which have been obtained after having been long desired men almost never derive the pleasure and delight which they had anticipated.
It is easy to lose important opportunities, and difficult to regain them; therefore when they present themselves it is the more necessary to make every effort to retain them.
Plans that are wise and prudent in themselves are rendered vain when the execution of them is carried on negligently and with imprudence.

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