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Difficulty Quotes by Alain de Botton
- Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.
- We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
- The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
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- Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. — Thomas Beecham