Mark Twain Quotes About Labor
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An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results
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Imagination labors best in distant fields.
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Labor in loneliness is irksome.
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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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A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; ...those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last--the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them--and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.
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God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man.
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The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.
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