Mark Twain Quotes About Work
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Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.
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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.
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Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
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The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.
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Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
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In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!
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Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
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Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.
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