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Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1837). “Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides”, p.79
Hard are life's early steps; and but that youth is buoyant, confident, and strong in hope, men would behold its threshold, and despair.