"Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man."
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"Being unready and ill-equipped is what you have to expect in life. It is the universal predicament. It is your lot as a human being to lack what it takes. Circumstances are seldom right. You never hav…"
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