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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

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The labor we delight in physics [cures] pain.

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This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

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I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.

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I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.

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My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.

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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write.

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If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

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Don't steal; thou'lt never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

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[It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants.

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Work makes a callus against grief.

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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