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Industry No habit has such grate influence upone our good and ill success in life, as industry. Industry, is a source of healph, and firm support and constant pleasure. A person industrious, active, and vigerous is in better health and spirit, then the indolent and lazy. The former are always full of mirth as well as joy. How much How more is an assidious man respected in the community in which he resides then the one that is indolent. Look upone the industrious man's family; none so much loved, so happy, and joyous. His wife at night when he returns home from his daily labors has his chair standing by the blazing fire, and his prattling children climing upone his knee full of mirth. Is not this a happy man and what caused it? industry. This man is happier than the rich Croons, who is surrounded by his bags of
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Industry No habit has such grate influence upone our good and ill success in life, as industry. Industry, is a source of healph, and firm support and constant pleasure. A person industrious, active, and vigerous is in better health and spirit, then the indolent and lazy. The former are always full of mirth as well as joy. How much How more is an assidious man respected in the community in which he resides then the one that is indolent. Look upone the industrious man's family; none so much loved, so happy, and joyous. His wife at night when he returns home from his daily labors has his chair standing by the blazing fire, and his prattling children climing upone his knee full of mirth. Is not this a happy man and what caused it? industry. This man is happier than the rich Croons, who is surrounded by his bags of
Iowa Women’s Lives: Letters and Diaries
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