• Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

  Herman Melville
  American author 1819-1891
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. allotment
2. idleness
3. hands
4. grief

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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. by : Herman Melville

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