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Susanna Moodie: Ah, Hope! what...

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Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

Source: Life in the Clearing, ch. 1 (1853).
-- Susanna Moodie, (Dec 6 1803-1885), English-Canadian pioneer; She wrote a book of instruction for future pioneers; a realistic, insightful account of life in the wilderness in Roughing It in the Bush, 1852.


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