[cornelis]

this stuff takes digestion.

All good things come through hard work.

[Pistias]

"...between us and virtue the gods have placed the sweat of our brows; the road to her is long and steep, and it is rough at first; but when a man has reached the top, then she is easy to attain, although before she was hard..."
Hesiod, Works and Days

I really do love those Greeks.

[beckett]

All good things come through hard work.

Or, to put it another way:

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet

Aristotle