Quote #642 about labor by Abraham Lincoln
The old general rule was that educated people did not perform manual labor they managed to eat their bread leaving the toil of producing it to the uneducated this was not an insupportable evil to the working bees so long as the class of drones remained very small but now especially in these free states nearly all are educatedquite too nearly all to leave the labor of the uneducated in any wise adequate to the support of the whole it follows from this that henceforth educated people must labor otherwise education itself would become a positive and intolerable evil no country can sustain in idleness more than a small percentage of its numbers the great majority must labor at something productive.by Abraham Lincoln
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