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each morning will find you in the recitation rooms with your lessons more thoroughly and more conscientiously prepared for the day’s work than they were for the work of the day before.
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“each morning will find you in the recitation rooms with your lessons more thoroughly and more conscientiously prepared for the day’s work than they were for the work of the day before.”

Booker T. Washington

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Character Building
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1902
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Meaning of “each morning will find you in the recitation…”

Daily preparation is used as a measurable form of growth: each day’s work should become more thorough and conscientious than the last.

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Character Building, “Growth,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington is speaking specifically about students preparing lessons and cultivating disciplined study habits.

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