American journalist and author (b. 1758), Birth: 10-9-1758, Death: 17-4-1840
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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
Hannah Webster Foster
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An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.