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Alice James: The success or...

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

Source: Journal, 1891.
-- Alice James, (Aug 7 1848-1892), US diary and letter writer; She kept a withering journal of her life and was an integral part of a family firm of scholars and writers, with brothers William and Henry.


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