“The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.”
Help for the Starving, Pt. III (January 1892)
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“There are people who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
Source: Emma (1815)

1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”
Weekly World News, 25 Apr 2005 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3PMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51&dq=%22What+the+world+really+needs+is+more+love+and+less+paper+work.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-2H5TsbNEcWj8QO14oC5AQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22What%20the%20world%20really%20needs%20is%20more%20love%20and%20less%20paper%20work.%22&f=false
Then and Now http://www.unfetteredmind.org/jewel-ornament-buddhahood#sect12. Unfettered Mind http://www.unfetteredmind.org. (2008-07-08) (Topic: Awareness)

“You know you are getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.”
Reported in The Quote Manual: Wisdom and Wit of the Ages (2005), by R. G. Moscatelli, p. 201

“The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)

“[…]schools reward people who study more and more about less and less.”
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