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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from de

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. – Charles Baudelaire

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
City Life, Cities
Author
Charles Baudelaire
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Beauty
Author
Charles Baudelaire
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We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Government
Author
Charles Baudelaire
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Other Quotes from
Labor
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Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it as earned. – Thomas Jefferson

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Labor

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

Category:
Labor

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. – Alice Walker

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Labor

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach. – George Sheehan

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Labor

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