“Nothing I like to do pays well.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 6, p. 141 : 'Rooster Cogburn' to 'Mattie Ross'
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“There is nothing nameable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.”
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21
Context: Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity. In pronounced cases there is no question about them. But in some supposed cases, in various degrees supposedly less pronounced, to draw the exact line of demarcation few will undertake tho' for a fee some professional experts will. There is nothing nameable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.

“Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.”
Academy of Achievement interview (1991)

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“I trust to luck and do nothing but work, hoping that all will end well.”
3 February 1944
(1942 - 1944)

“Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
Variant: I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.
Source: Mansfield Park
Here Be Dragons (1985), Book 1

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