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The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Edward Bulwer Lytton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1839 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 249 · printed citation: Bulwer-Lytton · subject: Study
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