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“Some are “industrious,” and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such I have at present nothing to say. Those who would not know what to do with more leisure than they now enjoy, I might advise to work twice as hard as they do,—work till they pay for themselves, and get their free papers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

“Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)