"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument."
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Source: Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press
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