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Frederick Philip Grove: reexamining a prominent Prairie writer.(Critical essay)

He who can honestly say, "I meant to do this or that and did it," very likely did not pitch his aim very high. I have met many men in my life who have done things and whose names are consequently known far beyond the confines of their country. With a few of them I have been intimate; and of these there was none but said that he had failed. What others called their achievements, they considered mere byproducts of their striving for something greater, something beyond their reach, perhaps beyond man's reach. What made them great was not what was within their grasp; it is so easy to do what is within one's grasp. What made them great was that they reached for the stars. For only ...

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