"Work is as much a necessity to man……" — Wilhelm von Humboldt
"Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes."
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Wilhelm von Humboldt
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41 Quotes by Wilhelm von Humboldt
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