For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Walden

by Thoreau, Henry Davld (2008)

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The student who secures his coveted leisure and retirement by systematically shirking any labor necessary to man obtains but an ignoble and unprofitable leisure, defrauding himself of the experience which alone can make leisure fruitful. (p.47)

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