"It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others."
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"Learning, undigested by thought, is labor lost."
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"I'm convinced that we all harvest the fruits of our labors."
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"The demand for commodities is not the demand for labor."
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"The time for your labor has been granted."
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"Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished."
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"Industry cannot flourish if labor languish."
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"Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor."
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"The biggest labor problem is tomorrow."
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"The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder."
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"The true artist can only labor con amore."
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"The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home."
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"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
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"All true work is sacred."
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"And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable."
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"The monarchy is a labor intensive industry."
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"But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest."
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"Labour is the human element which makes the fruitful seasons of the earth useful to men."
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"From labor there shall come forth rest."
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"They can expect nothing but their labor for their pains. - Cervantes"
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