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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom more fruitful than his toil.
A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom more fruitful than his toil.
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- Hamilton Wright Mabie
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 509; printed byline: Hamilton Wright Mabie; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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