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- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
- In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
- Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), Candide, 1759
- When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778), letter to Le Comte d'Argental, August 28, 1760
- Knowledge is power.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Sybil, 1845
- Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
- He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Journal, February 11, 1840
- Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1738
- Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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