This hardworking, pioneer nation needs the noisy teachings of efficiency and scientific management less than the melodious teaching of song and dance and beauty.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
As for Aunt Helen, she could have dispensed with her; she even caught herself drawing unfavorable comparisons between her and the patient, hardworking mother far away.
"Ester Ried"
Pansy (aka. Isabella M. Alden)
The Florentine artists to whose studios he went began to notice the hardworking boy, and when they looked at his work, with all its faults and want of finish, they saw in it that divine something called genius which no one can mistake.
"Knights of Art Stories of the Italian Painters"
Amy Steedman