“Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do”
Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul
“I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it.”
— George Eliot, book Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
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