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5 F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes on Work

F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes on work

  1. The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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  2. 'Jelly-bean' is the name throughout the undissolved Confederacy for one who spends his life conjugating the verb to idle in the first person singular-I am idling, I have idled, I will idle.

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  3. The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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  4. I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!

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  5. The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

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