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Work Quotes by Jane Austen
- I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
- It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the…
- With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
- The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour.
- It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most…
- I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward…
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- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
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- Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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