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Labour is not only a necessity and a duty, but a blessing: only the idler feels it to be a curse.
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Work in moderation is healthy, as well as agreeable to the human constitution.
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Work educates the body, as study educates the mind; and that is the best state of society in which there is some work for every man's leisure, and some leisure for every man's work.
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Industry enables men to earn their living; it should also enable them to learn to live.