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"When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower."
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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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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."

"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."

"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."

"How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?"

"The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque."

"I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting."

"The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it."

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."
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