“The virtues, like the body, become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German novelist
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 368.
“Everything nourishes what is strong already”
— Jane Austen, book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
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