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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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. – Jean Giraudoux

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To labor is to pray. – Motto of the Benedictines

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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor. – Sri Anandamayi Ma

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Blowing up buses will not induce the Israelis to move forward, and neither will the killing of Palestinians or the demolition of their homes and their future. All this needs to stop. And we pledge that Jordan will do its utmost to help achieve it. – King Abdullah II

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Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. – John Gunther

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