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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.
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If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly many an unbearable situation would become manageable and many a nervous illness avoided. There is a proverb expressing this. It says trouble is a tunnel through which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.

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