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he must do it just as well as he can, and then, to-morrow, must do it still better than he did it to-day, and the next week better than he did it this week.
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“he must do it just as well as he can, and then, to-morrow, must do it still better than he did it to-day, and the next week better than he did it this week.”

Booker T. Washington

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Character Building
Date
1902
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Meaning of “he must do it just as well as…”

Improvement is framed as repeated refinement of the same work over days and weeks rather than a one-time display of effort.

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Character Building, “The Virtue of Simplicity,” Project Gutenberg #60484. Washington uses mortar-mixing as a concrete example of progressive workmanship.

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