"Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,—honest work, which you intend getting done."
— Thomas Carlyle

January 1, 1970

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Address as Lord Rector of Edinburgh University, (April 2, 1866), reported in A dictionary of quotations in prose, edited by A. L. Ward (1889).