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My school and my gospel (1908)

Herkomer, Hubert von, Sir, 1849-1914 · London : A. Constable and company, limited · leaf 152

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me inmoments of unexpected success. I utter a platitudewhen I say that work begets work, just as idlenessbegets idleness. When once work has taken pleasurablepossession of the individual, greed follows, and cries outfor more. Greed is born of abnormal activity, and canbe met with in all kinds of… … IIopcUo. (£tPor an5 ■<£o. MY SCHOOL AND MY GOSPEL It may, or may not, be a virtue, but abnormal activitywas born in me, and has constantly broken out in aninevitable greed for work; and there is no getting awayfrom original idiosyncrasy. A writer once called me a glutton for work, and I think he…

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