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Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow,

Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains. – Washington Irving, letter to Pierre Paris Irving (nephew), 1824 December 7th

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