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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
Your work, Sir, is both new and good, but what's new is not good and what's good is not new.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
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