After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame
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If you want to get something done, you have to do it yourself. When you let other people do it for you, you get nothing accomplished. So, work on yourself and don’t waste your time or energy on people who aren’t willing to get their hands dirty. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt: “Do your own work.

Do not shirk from doing a thing because it is troublesome or difficult. The only way in which you can do a great deal of hard work is to believe that you will get a great deal of pleasure out of it in the end.”

Source: The Wind In The Willows

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