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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
  

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We need to work hard to achieve anything. People will eventually realise that it is useless to desire what others have, or to copy what they have done, we can only receive good things when we work hard with what has been given to us.

  • We need to work hard to achieve anything.
  • People will eventually realise that it is useless to desire what others have, or to copy what they have done, we can only receive good things when we work hard with what has been given to us.
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We need to work hard to achieve anything.

People will eventually realise that it is useless to desire what others have, or to copy what they have done, we can only receive good things when we work hard with what has been given to us.

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