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• Let me call to your attention the fact that those who most often and most loudly extol the virtue in hard work are also the folks least likely to have callouses.
• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtue
  without courage, the other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey...
• Most of the time, for most of the world, no matter how hard people work at it, nothing of any significance happens.
• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
• Most people can do without the essentials, but not without the luxuries.
• Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -- --Aristotle
• Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
• We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood.
  We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done....