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

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

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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