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Stepping-stone

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Step´ping-stone`
n.1.A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.
2.Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
These obstacles his genius had turned into stepping-stones.
- Macaulay.
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.
- Tennyson.


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