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[loansharkliz]

"It was not until years afterward that i came upon Tolstoy's phrase "the snare of preparation" which he insists we spread before the feet of young people, hopelessly entangling them in a curious inactivity at the very period of life when they are longing to construct the world anew and to conform it to their own ideals"
-jane addams, 20 years at the hull house.