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A Victorian work on the formation of personal character, arguing that qualities such as integrity, discipline, and duty matter more than talent or wealth, illustrated with examples drawn from many lives. It suits readers interested in the history of self-improvement writing and moral philosophy.
Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
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