The highest pleasure

The highest pleasure
The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour
  

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I willprepare and some day my chance will come.
Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.
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Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.
Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.
A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out
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Onemust talk little and listen much.
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Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.
The warexisting between the senses and reason.