Great Throughts Treasury

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Theodore Martin, fully Sir Theodore Martin

Scottish Author, Poet, Biographer and Translator

"Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins."

"When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection his decline begins."