'Success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed. / To comprehend a nectar / Requires sorest need.' Who composed these lines?
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Correct answer: C. Emily Dickinson
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The opening of Emily Dickinson's poem (no. 112 Franklin; pub. 1864): only the defeated truly understand victory.
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