“It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.”
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Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
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Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
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It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
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