"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope."
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Source: Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.314, Harvard University Press
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