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3 Mark Twain Quotes on Work

Mark Twain quotes on work

  1. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

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  2. Work consists of whatever a body is OBLIGED to do, and...Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

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  3. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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