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“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
― Franz Kafka

“More men are beaten than fail. It is not wisdom they need or money, or brilliance, or "pull," but just plain gristle and bone. This rude, simple, primitive power which we call "stick-to-it-iveness" is the uncrowned king of the world of endeavour. People are utterly wrong in their slant upon things. They see the successes that men have made and somehow they appear to be easy. But that is a world away from the facts. It is failure that is easy. Success is always hard. A man can fail in ease; he can succeed only by paying out all that he has and is.”
― Henry Ford, My Life and Work

“We have taught an entire generation to be so open-minded that their brains fell out.”
― James MacPherson

“Thou hast fallen in darkness, like a star that shoots across the desert; when the traveller is alone, and mourns the transient beam!”
― James Macpherson, Fingal: An Epic Poem