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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

LEXICOGRAPHER. n. s. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20401…

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I could have asked the accountants to handle the last pile of my personal taxes paperwork but I like to do some things myself so I can get a handle on stuff, and I had nothing planned for Saturday anyway.

At least that's how I felt about 14 hours ago. Hindsight, eh?...

#tax #drudgery

Advancing #technology was sold to us under the idea that it would lift everyone out of #drudgery, but as we can all plainly see, it was only ever intended to elevate a select #elite and reduce the rest of us to drudges to serve the #ruling and #affluent #monopoly #ownership classes, their mandarins, and their machines.

America is now a #ThirdWorld #colonial extraction #economy. The sun will always set on any #empire, given enough time and enough #weapons in the hands of the colonized.

A quotation from Barrie, James:

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/barrie-james/5607/

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> The nearly intolerable irony in our dissatisfaction is that we have removed pleasure from our work in order to remove “drudgery” from our lives. If I could pick any rule of industrial economics to receive a thorough re-examination by our people, it would be the one that says that all hard physical work is “drudgery” and not worth doing.
https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2012/mayjune/feature/excerpts-the-writings-wendell-berry
#WendellBerry #Work #Drudgery #Farming #Farmers

A quotation from Gladwell, Malcolm:

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Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/gladwell-malcolm/60418/

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