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Exploration in itself has value, since trying new things increases our chances of finding the best.
Regrets, I’ve had a few. But then again, too few to mention.
“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as remembering.
“a man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.”
The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.
The world’s most difficult word to translate has been identified as “ilunga,” from the Tshiluba language spoken in south-eastern DR Congo.… Ilunga means “a person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time.”
