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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you ... a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you ... a hundred virtues which the idle never know.

Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial

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Charles Kingsley
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Approximate author period: c. 1847 AD · industrial
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Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)

Complete signed selection 160; printed byline: Charles Kingsley; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901

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