All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god. (Thomas Carlyle)

All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god.

Thomas Carlyle

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