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"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Employment should not be your permanent assignment."

"Employment will fail you someday."

"What to wear: An employee chooses. How to dress: His employer chose."
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"What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?"

"It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her."

"The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough."

"Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out."

"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
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