The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery. (Janet Erskine Stuart)

The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Janet Erskine Stuart

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