“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”

Quoted in The Algonquin Wits, (1968) by R E Drennan, p. 5

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American comedian 1889–1945

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“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.”

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