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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting...more

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It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of...more

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Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help of which we are driven? Any ...more

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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

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I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

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But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

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It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I ...more

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I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since...more

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I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and tomatoes, &c., and felt that the thin...more