"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."

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Source : Lucy Larcom (1889). “A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory”

Lucy Larcom

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“It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.”
“A loud smile is often a fake laugh.”
“The home of the homeless all over the earth.”

Source : Alfred Billings Street (1850). “The Poems of Alfred B. Street”, p.85
“One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.”
“If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.”

Source : "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.
“Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.”
“The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.”
“At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.”

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