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“Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the dignity of work. Work is a drug that dull people take to avoid the pangs of unmitigated boredom. It has been adorned with fine phrases, because it is a necessity to most men, and men will always gild the pill they're obliged to swallow. Work is a sedative.” — W Somerset Maugham

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Do you know, it seems to me that a great deal of nonsense is talked about the dignity of work. Work is a drug that dull people take to avoid the pangs of unmitigated boredom. It has been adorned with fine phrases, because it is a necessity to most men, and men will always gild the pill they're obliged to swallow. Work is a sedative.
— W Somerset Maugham