industriousness

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By then many Americans were deeply familiar with Franklin’s maxims about the importance of industriousness, thrift and self-reliance, which he published annually in “The Poor Richard’s Almanack” from 1732 to 1757.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

Constable wanted to give landscape subjects the stature of history painting so he constructed nature as a historical motif of English industriousness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Critics accused adherents of wasting their parents’ investment and abandoning the industriousness that helped build China into a superpower.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2023

Each mention his industriousness and his bachelor status.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2022

Eurasia is protected by its vast land spaces, Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants.

From "1984" by George Orwell