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Quotation from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
“Diligent! That includes all virtues in it that a student can have”
On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (opening counsel) (Project Gutenberg #13435)
Carlyle gives the one advice he claims is the summary of all advices: be diligent now, while it is 'called to-day'.
Citation: "Diligent! That includes all virtues in it that a student can have" — Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (opening counsel) (Project Gutenberg #13435). (id on-the-choice-of-books-q2)
