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No first step can be really great it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Katherine Cecil Thurston
Age: 36 †
Born: 1875
Born: April 18
Died: 1911
Died: September 5
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