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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about Past

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.16, Westminster John Knox Press

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”