When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning. (John Lancaster Spalding)

When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life's morning.

John Lancaster Spalding

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