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Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and... Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.
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We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
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Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?
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Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
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You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
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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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There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
November 30, 1835
Died:
April 21, 1910
(aged 74)
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