"Work is a necessary evil to be..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.”

“I said nothing of the sort.”

“Comparison is the death of joy.”

“I like hard work and I don’t like pretending things are perfect.”

“I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!”

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.”

“In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital.”

“I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.”

“It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.”