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Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1754-03-02), The Adventurer, No. 138

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Dec 15

A quotation from Joseph Addison

As exercise becomes tedious and painful when we make use of it only as the means of health, so reading is apt to grow uneasy and burdensome, when we apply ourselves to it only for our improvement in virtue. For this reason, the virtue which we gather from a fable, or an allegory, is like the health we get by hunting; as we are engaged in an agreeable pursuit that draws us on with pleasure, and makes us insensible of the fatigues that accompany it.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1709-03-18), The Tatler, No. 147

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 7, 2025

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

LEXICOGRAPHER. n. s. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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LEXICOGRAPHER. n. s. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

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Rotan Feb 22, 2025

I could have asked the accountants to handle the last pile of my personal taxes paperwork but I like to do some things myself so I can get a handle on stuff, and I had nothing planned for Saturday anyway.

At least that's how I felt about 14 hours ago. Hindsight, eh?...

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Gemma ⭐️🔰🇺🇸 🇵🇭 🎐Nov 10, 2024

Advancing #technology was sold to us under the idea that it would lift everyone out of #drudgery, but as we can all plainly see, it was only ever intended to elevate a select #elite and reduce the rest of us to drudges to serve the #ruling and #affluent #monopoly #ownership classes, their mandarins, and their machines.

America is now a #ThirdWorld #colonial extraction #economy. The sun will always set on any #empire, given enough time and enough #weapons in the hands of the colonized.

WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 17, 2024

A quotation from Barrie, James:

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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"Courage," Rectoral Address, University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1922-05-03) - Barrie, James | WIST Quotations

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

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bs2 Jul 19, 2023

> The nearly intolerable irony in our dissatisfaction is that we have removed pleasure from our work in order to remove “drudgery” from our lives. If I could pick any rule of industrial economics to receive a thorough re-examination by our people, it would be the one that says that all hard physical work is “drudgery” and not worth doing.
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/feature/excerpts-the-writings-wendell-berry
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Excerpts from the Writings of Wendell Berry

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WIST Quotations moves again!Apr 24, 2023

A quotation from Gladwell, Malcolm:

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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
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