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"The world system is employment."

"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."

"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."

"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."

"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."

"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."

"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."
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