Quote by Samuel Butler
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enem

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost. – Samuel Butler

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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. – Samuel Butler

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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better. – Samuel Butler

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My wife, whenever Id go off to work and Id be kind of anxious, shell say, Remember, have fun. Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and theres a lot of joy to be had wherever you are. – Jeff Bridges

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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. – Frederick Douglass

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I understand whats it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something. – Don Cheadle

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Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

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