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Labor (toil)

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What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Some to kill cankers in the musk-rose buds,
Some war with rere-mice for their leathern wings,
To make my small elves coats.

William Shakespeare

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They smell of the lamp.

Pytheas

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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The representative of the highest spiritual authority of the earth is glad, indeed boasts, of being the son of a humble but robust and honest laborer.

Pope John (XXIII)

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Then after Eden,
was there no surprise?
O yes, the awe of Adam
at the first bead of sweat.

Derek Walcott

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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