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The matter was that never before had [Betsy] known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up.
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I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.
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Mrs. Marshall-Smith, continuing steadily to talk (on the theory that talking prevents too great concentration of thought), and making the round of all the possible things to say.
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Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
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Born:
February 17, 1879
Died:
November 9, 1958
(aged 79)
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