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Labor Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
- One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.…
- Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor;…
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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