Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
Charles KingsleyAbout author
- Author's profession: Clergyman
- Nationality: english
- Born: June 12, 1819
- Died: January 23, 1875
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