Henry David ThoreauNext to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
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Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are. This quote by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller says that the best way to get along with others is not to do what they say, but to do what you say.
Source: Walden
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