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The tedium of that work is hard to conceive.
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My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
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It is my service to think how I can best fulfil the demands that each day makes upon me, and to rejoice that others can do what I cannot.
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There are, however, times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.
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As I look back on my struggle to write that little story, it seems to me that I must have had a prophetic vision of the good that would come of the undertaking, or I should surely have failed.
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Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.
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Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process.