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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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"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."

"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful."

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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