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The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery -- Oscar Wilde
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. -- Friedrich Schiller
I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life. -- Yayoi Kusama
If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful! -- Lewis Carroll
He was by no means opposed to hard labour on principle, for he would work away at a cricket-match by the day together, - running, and catching, and batting, and bowling, and revelling in toil which would exhaust a galley-slave. -- Charles Dickens
I'm not sure filming a birth is as hard as actual labour, but it's a really long, arduous day! -- Helen George
It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. -- George H. White
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected. -- Edmond Halley
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge. -- Polly Toynbee
Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad. -- Iain Duncan Smith
As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth. -- Stephen Fry
Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour. -- Patrick Duffy
We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. -- Nick Clegg
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. -- John Milton
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end. -- Robert Herrick
What a labour writing is ... making one sentence do the work of a page; that's what I call hard work. -- Virginia Woolf
The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger. -- George Galloway
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in. -- John Mason Brown
Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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