| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 33694 |
| QUOTATION: | Making the best of things is ... a damn poor way of dealing with them.... My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand [ellipses in source]. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968), U.S. author. As quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 3, by William V. Holtz (1993).
In letters to Guy Moyston dated August 25, 1924, and July 11, 1925. The daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the famous “Little House” books for children, Lane had grown up very poor. |
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