"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
-Benjamin Franklin
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
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"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man."
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"More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way."
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