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21 " Nevin, A. M. The Social Mirror: A Character Sketch of the Women of Pittsburgh and Vicinity during the First Century of the County’s Existence. Pittsburgh, PA: T. W. Nevin, 1888. "
― Annejet van der Zijl , An American Princess: The Many Lives of Allene Tew
22 " Wharton, E. The Buccaneers. London: Viking, 1993. "
23 " Wheeler, P., and H. E. Rives. Dome of Many-Coloured Glass. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955. "
24 " From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. "
25 " Strength of character has to be worked on, hard . . . Always try many things. Try every way one can think of, when you truly need something important and if you do not see the way, get help . . . All girls and boys, no matter what position they have should be brought up to work these days, or at least know how to. I should think every effort should be to get work for your own dignity . . . TRY to make friends, everyone can with an effort. Everyone has sadness and much trouble and likes a gay pleasant friend about. COURAGE ALL THE TIME. "
26 " If you no longer had a future, what else is there left but dreams of the past? "
27 " If there was one thing that was truly American, it was the belief that it was always possible to start again. "
28 " The rich aristocrats who spent their weekdays “shearing lambs” on Wall Street "
29 " From this study, it becomes clear that . . . good luck accumulates, as does bad luck. People are in poor health and are poverty-stricken and get let down, and vice versa. It is totally unfair. And the only real predictor of good or bad luck is the ability to deal with setbacks. Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. "
30 " Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn’t a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn’t a detour, a road had to be built. “If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things,” she wrote later. "
31 " If one has no steady belief and foundation to one’s life, it is all hopelessness and tears, "