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It Is Easy To Become The Dupe Of A Deferred Purpose, Of The Promise The Future Can Never Keep, And I Had Fallen Into The Meanest Type Of Self-deception In Making Myself Believe That All This Was In Preparation For Great Things To Come.
-Jane Addams
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It Is Easy To Become The Dupe

Jane Addams
It Is Easy To Become The Dupe Of A Deferred Purpose, Of The Promise The Future Can Never Keep, And I Had Fallen Into The Meanest Type Of Self-deception In Making Myself Believe That All This Was In Preparation For Great Things To Come.
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Believe
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