“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”
William Booth (1829–1912) British Methodist preacher
“Everything depends on upbringing.”
— Leo Tolstoy, book War and Peace
Variant: Everything intelligent is so boring.
Source: War and Peace
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