Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
Jules Michelet, G. H. Smith (1846). “The People”, p.20, New York : D. Appleton ; Philadelphia : G.S. Appleton ; Cincinnati : Derby, Bradley
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