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*Finish each day and be done with it... You have done what you could;*

 *some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;*

 *forget them as soon as you can.*

 *Tomorrow is a new day;*

 *you shall begin it well and serenely.*

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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