Haunted by fears both vague and specific during the small
hours of the night, the writer John Cheever took to reciting those nine words to
himself upon arising, and found they cheered him.
As long as you can keep those
words in mind, I suspect, you are probably on ethically and emotionally solid
footing — although Cheever might have done better to throw in the word “temperance,”
too.
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