The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse. (Henry David Thoreau)

The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward. To have done anything by which you earned money merely is to have been truly idle or worse.

Henry David Thoreau

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