INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.
You have to figure out what your own aptitudes are. If you play games where other people have the aptitudes and you don’t, you’re going to lose. And that’s as close to certain as any prediction that you can make. You have to figure out where you’ve got an edge. And you’ve got to play within your own circle of competence.
Without imperfection, you or I would not exist.