It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. Th…

Samuel Smiles
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It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved. ✨ Samuel Smiles (1861). Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct, p.348
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