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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.

Approximate author period: c. 1640 AD · renaissance

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Samuel Butler
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Approximate author period: c. 1640 AD · renaissance
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