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“As for doing good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and ... am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“But this place is too cold for hell. Ill devil-porter it no further; I had thought to have let in some of all professions that go the primrose way to th everlasting bonfire.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (18541900)
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