"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."

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"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes."

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