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“The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball — the further I am rolled the more I gain.
— Susan B. Anthony
Suffragist
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years, Volume 2 (1 January 1898) by Ida Husted Harper, published by Bowen-Merrill Company
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