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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

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If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent.

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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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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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Joyful is the accumulation of good work.

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.

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I've tried to be totally present, so that when I'm finished with a piece of work, I'm finished. ... The work, once completed, does not need me. The work I'm working on needs my total concentration. The one that's finished doesn't belong to me anymore. It belongs to itself.

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In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.

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I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

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I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

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But if you had asked him what his work was, he would look candidly and openly at you with his large bright eyes through his gold pincenez, and would answer in a soft, velvety, lisping baritone: "My work is literature."

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He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends.

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