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> 何事も最初は難し **く** 、やがてやさしくなる。  
>  All things are difficult before they are easy.

I've never seen an い-adjective used in this way (難しく). Would using 難し **くて**
(which is what I would have used) change the meaning of the sentence?
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grammar て-form
Use of く-form over くて in an い-adjective
There are two ways to form sentence conjunctions using 用言{ようげん} (inflectable
words) in Japanese sentences:

  * the て-form; e.g., 難しくて, 走って
  * the 連用形{れんようけい}; e.g., 難しく, 走り

It is called the 中止形{ちゅうしけい} when you use the 連用形 as a conjunction.

Nuance-wise, using the 中止形 is a little more literary, so it can give a more
formal feel to the sentence.
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