Above all else, never think you're not good enough. - Anthony Trollope

It's dogged as does it. It's not thinking about it.

Each thought himself, especially since this last promotion, to be indispensably necessary to the formation of London society, and was comfortable in the conviction that he had thoroughly succeeded in life by acquiring the privilege of sitting down to dinner three times a week with peers and peeresses.

She had seen no one who had so touched her. But she was alive to the romance of the thing, and was in love with the idea of being in love.