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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season

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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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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures. – Luc De Clapiers

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Labor is mans greatest function. He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, he can fulfill nothing, without working. – Orville Dewey

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