"Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be."
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"All professions are conspiracies against the laity."
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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
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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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"But what is work and what is not work? Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles? All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody. There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them."
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"If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
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"There is joy in work."
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"And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God."
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"By working hard, you get to play hard guilt-free."
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"On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard."
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."
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"I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly."
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"Housekeeping ain't no joke."
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"Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty."
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"I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking."
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"No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive."
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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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"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
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"No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
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"Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
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