"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side."

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"Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence."

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"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."

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"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."

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"My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant."

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"Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue."

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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."

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"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."

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"The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet."

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"The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends."

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