Definition of Stepping-Stone
Stepping-stone
A stone to raise the feet above the surface of water or mud in walking.
Fig.: A means of progress or advancement.
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Stepping-Stone Quotations
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Gertrude Stein
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.
Cullen Hightower
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich.
Stephen J. Field
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