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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult

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"Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good"

- Lucy Larcom

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This quote is written / told by Lucy Larcom between March 5, 1824 and April 17, 1893. He/she was a famous Poet from USA. The author also have 4 other quotes.

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