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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensa

Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. – Samuel Johnson

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Getting money is not all a mans business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. – Samuel Johnson

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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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If a little labor, little are our gains. Mans fortunes are according to his pains. – Robert Herrick

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Labor is still, and ever will be, the inevitable price set upon everything which is valuable. – Samuel Smiles

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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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I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. – John D. Rockefeller

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