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“He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk was the highest he would ever reach. Well aware of this, he made it a rule never to show any...”
“Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.”
“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.”
“Most of us spend all our working life dreaming of doing nothing, then when we end up doing nothing, we long for something. When we have neither longing, I think that is what they call living for th...”
