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“The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.”

Men Work Taught Poet Philosopher Contempt Idleness Degradation Free Man Antiquity

Book:The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

“The girl must early be impressed with the idea that she is to be "a hand, not a mouth"; a worker, and not a drone, in the great hive of human activity. Like the boy, she must be taught to look forward to a life of self-dependence, and early prepare herself for some trade or profession.”

Humans Looks Ideas Self Hands Girl Work Boys Taught Activity Mouths Trade Workers Profession Impressed Dependence Human Activity Drones Hives

Book:History of woman suffrage

Source: History of woman suffrage

“My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.”

Ifs Men World Needs Giving Trying Able Earth Courses Community Work Principles Taught Benefits Contrary Pursue Ruins Clothings Idlers

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”

Stories Father Work Laughing Taught Jokes Deny Enterprise Cracks

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.”

Mother Work Business Taught

Author:David Geffen

“Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.”

Men Should Firsts Humans Art Self Care Force Work Human Beings Taught Duty Labor Take Care Every Man Cunning Begging Borrowing Dishonorable

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful to labor, or aristocratic not to labor, the world will be filled with idleness and crime, and with every possible moral deformity.”

World Should Long Work Effort Moral Honest Crime Taught Labor Filled Heroism Nobility Idleness Splendor Disgraceful Deformity Aristocratic

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll