Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work. (Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward)

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

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