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Quotation from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
“For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind--honest work, which you intend getting done”
On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (on choosing a field of work) (Project Gutenberg #13435)
Said just after calling the most unhappy man the one who has no work cut out for him.
Citation: "For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind--honest work, which you intend getting done" — Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (on choosing a field of work) (Project Gutenberg #13435). (id on-the-choice-of-books-q4)
