We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed. - Michel de Montaigne

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That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.

Michel de Montaigne

We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

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