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• n  great and constant diligence and attention

• Earl has aped his brother with the beetle-browed assiduousness of a vaudeville baboon learning to roller-skate; he rubs himself with the legend of Huey's greatness like a voodoo .
• Albright's discipline and assiduousness, she says, came from her father.
• As a result of that assiduousness, Lauren has been criticized as being a promoter rather than a designer, a copycat who turns traditional ideas into high-priced knock-offs.

• assiduity
• concentration

Quotes

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• Margaret Thatcher in The Nation Newspaper
  Margaret Thatcher, who admits her personal liking for President Jimmy Carter, noted that his presidency demonstrated that "in leading a great nation, decency and assiduousness are not enough".