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  • Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

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    Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

  • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

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  • True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition. The dignity is in leisure. Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.

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    Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.464, Northwestern University Press
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Herman Melville

  • Born: August 1, 1819
  • Died: September 28, 1891
  • Occupation: Novelist
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