“Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.”
“The time's come: there's a terrific thunder-cloud advancing upon us, a mighty storm is coming to freshen us up....It's going to blow away all this idleness and indifference, and prejudice against work....I'm going to work, and in twenty-five or thirty years' time every man and woman will be working.”
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