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He that would eat the nut must crack the shell.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Toil is man’s allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that’s more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

—Herman Melville, 1849

The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.

—Nell Scovell, 1991

I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.

—Henry David Thoreau, 1855

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

—Theodore Roosevelt, 1903

The workers are the saviors of society, the redeemers of the race.

—Eugene V. Debs, 1905

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

—Anatole France, 1881

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair, 1935
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