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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind—honest work, which you intend getting done.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind—honest work, which you intend getting done.
Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Carlyle
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- Approximate author period: c. 1838 AD · industrial
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 93; printed byline: Thomas Carlyle; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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