‘I’m on the sharp end of witchcraft, which means doing what should be done as best you can. It’s all about the people, Mrs. Earwig, not about the books.’ (SC)
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People are often so busy living that they never stopped to wonder why. (ISWM)
She took the view that if you were capable of learning, you’d work it out. There was no point in making it easy for people. (W)
‘I don’t seem to be achieving anything, but I must keep trying otherwise what is free will for?’ (DSS)
'Thank you, Archchancellor, but I'm far too busy for you to help me,' he said. (LH)
'I can't start repenting at my time of life. I'd never get any work done. Anyway,' she added, 'I ain't sorry for most of it.' (CJ)
He has survived by never giving up and never playing fair (PP)
Wasn't it a basic principle never to let your employer know what it is you actually do all day? (LC)
Crowley liked the city in the early mornings. its population consisted almost entirely of people who had proper jobs to do and real reasons for being there, as opposed to the unnecessary millions who trailed in after 8 a.m. (GO)
Washing-up is a badge of membership anywhere. (Ma)
'I must catch up on my sleep.'
'Don't worry, I shouldn't think it's had time to get far away,' said Nanny. (Ma) He had formed the unusual opinion that the job of a king is to make the kingdom a better place for everyone to live in. (LL)
Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people. (LL)
Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, ‘It’s indoor work with no heavy lifting …’ (SG)
He’d told her all about parallel processing, a concept she hadn’t heard of before her reincarnation. This meant running more than one task at once, or breaking down one big job into smaller jobs to be handled simultaneously. Not that she was particularly impressed. After all, she had been doing that all her life, thinking about making dinner while also blowing noses and teaching disturbed children how to hold a conversation and composing another angry letter to the bishop, with the occasional prayer thrown in the mix. Who didn’t have to work that way, every day of a busy life? (LM)
‘You may want to hold on to your job, but will you ever be able to let it go?’ (M)
… Victor Tugelbend was also the laziest person in the history of the world.
Not simply, ordinarily lazy. Ordinary laziness was merely the absence of effort. Victor has passed through there a long time ago, had gone straight through commonplace idleness and out the far side. He put more effort into avoiding work than most people put into hard labour (MP) “Enough” wasn’t really a long enough word to describe the numerous little tasks any young woman marrying into the Ogg family found were expected of her. (SC)
But the reward for lots of work seemed to be lots more. If you dug the biggest hole, they just gave you a bigger shovel … (SC)
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. (WS)
… the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt. (S)
She drew herself up to her full height, which wasn’t really worth the effort. (M)
… she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available. (LF)
‘… all things must strive, and because we know how ignorant we actually are then we must strive hardest of all.’ (JD)
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