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"By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day." Robert Frost, American poet (1874-1963)
"He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that." Thomas Carlyle, Scottish essayist and historian (1795-1881)
"For more than five years I maintained myself ... solely by the labour of my hands, and I found that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living." Henry David Thoreau, American writer, philosopher, and naturalist ...
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