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Question
Which lines tell you that a parent, a good gardener, a social reformer are all successful people?
Solution
Lines that inform us that a parent, a skilled gardener, and a social reformer are all successful people, are:
"To leave the world a bit better, whether by
a healthy child, a garden patch
or a redeemed social condition;
To know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived;
This is to have succeeded."
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