"Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it."

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... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and that to-morrow is necessarily better than to-day, may think that if culture is a good thing we shall infallibly be found to have more of it that we had a generation since; and that if we can be shown not to have more of it, it can be shown not to be worth seeking.

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould