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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1898, Page 20

Nothing of real worth can be achieved without working. Man owes his growth chiefly to that active striving of the will, that encounter with difficulty which we call effort ; results apparently impracticable are thus often made possible. The first external revelation of the '• dry rot " in men is a tendency to lurk and lounge, to be at street corners without intelligible reason, to be going anywhere when met, to be about many places rather than any, to do nothing tangible, but to have an intention of preforming a number of tangible duties to-morrow or the day after.