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drive, ambition, courage, desire to do well.
"The flaw in my character which she had already spotted was the lack of gumption." |
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to hate
My mother despised inactivity. |
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| This must have saddened my mother, this twist of fate that had allocated all the gumption to the daughter and left her with a son who was content with Dick Tracy and Stooge Viller. |
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poor person.
Fifty years ago parents still asked boys if they wanted to grow up to be President, and asked it not jokingly but seriously. Many parents who were hardly more than paupers still believed their sons could do it. |
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