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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine
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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Idleness
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[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use. – Samuel Johnson

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Mind
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Syzygy, inexorable, pancreatic, phantasmagoria — anyone who can use those four words in one sentence will never have to do manual labor. – W.P. Kinsella

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Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is better to wear out than to rust out. – Richard Cumberland

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