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Quote by Samuel Butler
Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. - Samuel But

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. – Samuel Butler

Other quotes by Samuel Butler

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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Letters (writing)
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A mans friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage – but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends. – Samuel Butler

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Marriage
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My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me. – Paul Cezanne

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My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group there was much less competition. – Indira Gandhi

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Every noble work is at first impossible. – Thomas Carlyle

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work

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. – Laurence J. Peter

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