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'Softly, softly, catchee monkey,' is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence. Sir Robert Baden-Powell		Friday Jan 16, 2026
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We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. Francesco Guicciardini

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	Francesco Guicciardini
	(1483-1540) Italian Historian, Dramatist and Statesman

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Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose. To rule self and subdue our passions is the more praiseworthy because so few know how to do it.