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

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