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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists o

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. – Mark Twain

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We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years. – Mark Twain

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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and Im a big shoe girl. – Amy Adams

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My work is the only ground Ive ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but Im working on the foundation. – Marilyn Monroe

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I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. – Michel de Montaigne

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People intoxicate themselves with work so they wont see how they really are. – Aldous Huxley

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