 What lesson couldn't be gleaned from this story?
It was this rather than skill that enabled the police to maintain such a tight surveillance on him, a surveillance that went to the extent of getting his fingerprints off the postman's bag, and which photographed, X-rayed and chemically analyzed the contents of his pockets before returning them. He came to see that genuine quirks were rare and, as time went on, due partly to his own small efforts, rarer. "It's like this, MacBride. And if there was a house sitting on such a mountain and if winds did blow, it would shake exactly the way that one does. The house could have been preparing to take off and sail down the....
 history tends to repeat itself
 no matter how much you strive for perfection, there will always be something preventing it  work on your dreams until they become a reality  history tends to repeat itself  love can accomplish many things