Mark Twain - Work Quotes

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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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