"Yes, this is life; and everywhere we meet, Not victor crowns, but wailings of defeat."
— Life

January 1, 1970

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, "Sonnet III: The Unattained", line 10, in The Poetical Writings of Elizabeth Oakes Smith (New York: J. S. Redfield, 1845), p. 97.