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Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor.
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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a ''work'' of man.
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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.
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Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
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Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
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Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made.
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
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Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
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Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
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