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How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work that disagreeable thing is the only way of not suffering in life or at all events of suffering less.
Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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- Charles Baudelaire
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- Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1821 to 1867; Wikidata Q501, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q501 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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