“It is not ease, but effort—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men.”

It is not ease, but effort—not facility, but difficulty, that makes men.

Samuel Smiles Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct, 1859

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Samuel Smiles 1812–1904 · Scottish author and reformer whose book Self-Help (1859) championed perseverance, thrift and personal effort. Wikipedia