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Samuel Butler Quotes: If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
         

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.


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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
         



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