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A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

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There has never been but one question in all civilization-how to keep a few men from saying to many men: You work and earn bread and we will eat it.

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There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.

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If a man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin, but he is not a cultivated man.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

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Do your work, but do your thing.

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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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Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

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Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence.

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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

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Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

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

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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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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So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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

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In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

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