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Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.
Robert Half
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as
men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought
they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a
help and ornament thereunto.
Francis Bacon
Quotes , Source: Maxims of the Law (preface)
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Let a man practise the profession he best knows.
[Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (I, 18)
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The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I
were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I
could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
Douglas Jerrold
Quotes , Source: Jerrold's Wit--Ugly Trades
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And sure the Eternal Master found
The single talent well employ'd.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes , Source: Verses on the On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet (st. 7)
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The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, i)
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Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at
their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius,
the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian,
filed needles.
Jeremy Taylor
Quotes , Source: Holy Living (ch. I, sec. I, Rules for Employing Our Time)
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