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It is all too easy to say: “I’m useless; nothing turns out right for me — for us.”

—Apart from not being true, that pessimism masks a great deal of laziness. There are things you do well, and things you do badly. Fill yourself with joy and with hope on account of the former; and face up to the latter — without losing heart — to put things right; and they will work out.

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