| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12355 |
| QUOTATION: | You seem to have no real purpose in life and wont realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jennie Jerome Churchill (18541921), Anglo-American mother of Winston Churchill. letter, Feb. 26, 1897, to Winston Churchill. Published in Ralph G. Martin, Jennie, vol. 2 (1971). |
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