Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.
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The proof of a thing's being right is that it has power over the heart that it excites us, wins us, or helps us.
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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.
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To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set to draw hard breath over the plough or spade to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.
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The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.
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