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He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Work, Preaching
Mark Twain (2005). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.216, Prestwick House Inc

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Life, Work
Letter to HenryW. Ruoff, 28 Aug. 1908

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

Mark Twain
Work, Grateful, Cutting
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.3, Courier Corporation

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Mark Twain
Funny, Work, Evil
Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.45, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

Mark Twain
Work, Mean, Loss
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Success, Work
Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Mark Twain
Work, Intellectual, Society
Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1320, Delphi Classics

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Mark Twain
Work, Ruins, Interest

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

Mark Twain
Motivational, Work, Yoga
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Mark Twain
Education, Work, Advice
Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.297, Courier Corporation

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

Mark Twain
Inspirational, Motivational, Work

I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Mark Twain
Work
Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

Mark Twain
Work, Two, World

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Mark Twain
Work, Writing, Years

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

Mark Twain
Work, Law, Doe
Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.279, Univ of California Press

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