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... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so. - Lucy Larcom
Attribution: Lucy Larcom (1824–1893), U.S. poet and teacher. A New England Girlhood, ch. 11 (1889). Larcom was forced to become a mill worker at age 11 after her father died, leaving a destitute widow and eight young children.

Categories: Ease, Hardship, Life, Poet And Teacher

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