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That meant, of course, to break entirely with my father, whose ambitions were quite different, and to rely for my living upon what I might earn by means of lessons.
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Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
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gutenberg.orgThat meant, of course, to break entirely with my father, whose ambitions were quite different, and to rely for my living upon what I might earn by means of lessons.
He acknowledges the personal sacrifice of breaking away from his father's expectations to pursue his own ambitions.
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