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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
 The fiction pleased; our generous train complies,
 Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.
  The work she read more 
 The fiction pleased; our generous train complies,
 Nor fraud mistrusts in virtue's fair disguise.
  The work she plyed, but, studious of delay,
   Each following night reversed the toils of day. 
Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
 The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the 
incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in read more 
 The uselessness of men above sixty years of age and the 
incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, in political, and 
in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work 
at this age. 
 Hard toil can roughen form and face,
 And want call quench the eye's bright grace.  
 Hard toil can roughen form and face,
 And want call quench the eye's bright grace. 
 Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty 
times upon the anvil.
 [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, read more 
 Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, put your work twenty 
times upon the anvil.
 [Fr., Hatez-vous lentement; et, sans perdre courage,
  Vingt fois sur le metier remettez votre ouvrage.] 
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.