We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (1960). H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal, p.198, Courier Corporation
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