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“The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three”
Alexandre Dumas Père
“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself”
James Madison
“Where there is no difficulty there is no praise”
Samuel Johnson
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
Thomas Fuller
“Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel”
Bertrand Russell
“A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.”
St. Jerome
“Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.”
Edgar Degas
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
“Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.”
Rene Descartes
“Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great”
Niccolo Machiavelli
