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Quotation from Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams
“I dreamed night after night that every one in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.”
Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter I, Earliest Impressions (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325))
A recurring childhood dream that she presents as an early sign of her sense of responsibility.
Citation: "I dreamed night after night that every one in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel." — Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, Chapter I, Earliest Impressions (Macmillan, 1910 (Project Gutenberg #1325)). (id twenty-years-at-hull-house-q1)
Portrait: ADDAMS, JANE 21664v (cropped2), Harris Ewing, publisher, Public domain.
