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

"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."

"Love by the sweat of thy brow.Not through whispered words of hollow sound or lofty dreams ne'er substance bound that more than oft do run aground. Nay, love with mighty, blistered hands that turn the soil and carve the land. A bearer of toil and golden band. Be strong! A founder of the feast! Protective knight who slays the beast! For promises and vows aloud are naught but wispy veneer shroud like cobwebs, frail, the airy words and wooing fail. So work, my darling. Toil as proof. Thy loyal heart be drained of youth and yet beat on, incessant sound. Both feet take root within the ground, and service be thy kingly crown.Love by the sweat of thy brow."

"Your life content reduces with employment."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."
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"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment."

"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."

"If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from."

"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."

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down."

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

"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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