When a person in a position of trust and responsibility lets people down, and particularly if the faltering is due to a deficit of character (the usual suspicion and assumption), the person is almost always disgraced and branded for life, without prospect of ever regaining a position of trust (if, that its, he were so presumptuous as to seek one, which he would not be).

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Nothing lasts for ever and fresh opportunities will always come along.

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