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People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Anne Sullivan Macy

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I cannot explain it but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.
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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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