You over-looked a roll of bills in your haste and I'm not the sort of fellow to see an earnest Endeavorer get the worst of it.
"Brewster's Millions"
George Barr McCutcheon
I do not know of any novels that a young Endeavorer in fiction could more profitably read than his for their large and simple method, their trust of the reader's intelligence, their sympathy with life.
"Literature and Life"
William Dean Howells
We talked of what we had done, and each said how much he liked certain thing of the other's; I even seized my advantage of his helplessness to read him a poem of mine which I had in my pocket; he advised me where to place it; and if the reader will not think it an unfair digression, I will tell here what became of that poem, for I think its varied fortunes were amusing, and I hope my own sufferings and final triumph with it will not be without encouragement to the young literary Endeavorer.
"Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells"
William Dean Howells