For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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