"By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day."
"No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found."
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Source: Robert Frost, Louis Untermeyer (1963). “The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer. (1. Ed.)”
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