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The fatal fault with most of us is nation to be governed by impulse ment wien everything Is incline to haste when we should and take accurate energy, where we should con- it, that our minds may not with fear and finally We fallures result from bur re For some paltry reason, a Uncommon Sense % JOHN BLAKE THE NEXT HURDLE achievement gives But you ¢ much of It. deal hurdle ou Cor all eas ily have too Li fe is a The when it, last one, that like a hurdle d good next oesn't look IN “a you have taken (hree or But it is the next hurdle, must think four lke not the you ithout, However gracefully you cleared the last one, + Just adva your pro em Is getting over ahead, confi You of out all the f what a3 remember ntage got But what is still to be done, that dence you can have done, always that it is Napoleon irritated his boasting gen answering their of won with the query, “And what did you do the next day?” erals by stories hattieq in the Pleas. 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