I'd learned my lesson.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.