Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it th… - Henry S. Haskins

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Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed.

Henry S. Haskins

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Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) was a stockbroker and man of letters. His aphorisms were edited and published anonymously with an introduction by Albert Jay Nock in 1940.

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Having climbed to a height, it is easier to slip from it than to stay there after the zest of striving is removed. - Henry S. Haskins

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