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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.

Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle, (Jul 14 1801-1866), Scottish letter writer; She was the wife of Thomas Carlyle known for her letter writing that was not only entertaining but of literary and historical importance.


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