People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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More quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
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