All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satis... - Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

"All, all, becomes profitable. Education is of the most satisfying and available nature. I am at Smith! Which two years ago was a doubtful dream - and that fortuitous change of dream to reality has led me to desire more, and to lash myself onward - onward."

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