It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work. (Alain de Botton)

It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.

Alain de Botton

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