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... individual without interests or occupation can really enjoy life , for , by the inexorable decree of nature , the only real happiness lies in useful or interesting work of some kind , either of the hand or the head , so long as over ...
... individual without interests or occupation can really enjoy life , for , by the inexorable decree of nature , the only real happiness lies in useful or interesting work of some kind , either of the hand or the head , so long as over ...
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... individual obtains , the lazy one never . A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things . Making allowance , however , for the general in- crease of wealth , the well - to - do people of to - day are , I think ...
... individual obtains , the lazy one never . A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things . Making allowance , however , for the general in- crease of wealth , the well - to - do people of to - day are , I think ...
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... individuals , ended in a disastrous slump . Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time ; it's ten to one if they hang long together . The reckless finance which prevailed reached its climax when , at a meeting of ...
... individuals , ended in a disastrous slump . Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time ; it's ten to one if they hang long together . The reckless finance which prevailed reached its climax when , at a meeting of ...
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... individual was about the most inde- fatigable caterer for novel readers who ever existed . He had gained great celebrity as the publisher of a long series of romances , dubbed by the literary critics of a past era as the Minerva Press ...
... individual was about the most inde- fatigable caterer for novel readers who ever existed . He had gained great celebrity as the publisher of a long series of romances , dubbed by the literary critics of a past era as the Minerva Press ...
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... individuals who profited by it were a certain number of contractors and merchants , one of whom , a few years after the war , sold about 15,000,000 pounds of wrought- and cast - iron , made out of the projectiles found on the ...
... individuals who profited by it were a certain number of contractors and merchants , one of whom , a few years after the war , sold about 15,000,000 pounds of wrought- and cast - iron , made out of the projectiles found on the ...
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