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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Lotos-Eaters." Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1832.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Lotos-Eaters." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

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Salk, Jonas. On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement. 23 Apr. 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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Chekhov, Anton. Три сeстры́ [Three Sisters]. Directed by Knostatin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. 31 Jan. 1901, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "Three Sisters." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

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Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.

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Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects]. Vol 2, Florence: Giunti, 1568.

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Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists, translated by George Bull. Vol. 1, Penguin Classics, 1988.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales. Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories. Dover Publications, 2013.

Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

Wilfrid Cumbermede

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MacDonald, George. Wilfred Cumbermede. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.