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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

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Jules Michelet
Age: 75 †
Born: 1798
Born: August 21
Died: 1874
Died: February 9
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