When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Eleanor Roosevelt My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns 1936-62
Also known as: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (11 October 1884 – 7 November 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, social activist. and first lady (as the wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt).

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