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In former times a popular work meant one that adapted the results of studious meditation, or scientific research, to the capacity of the people: presenting in the concrete by instances and examples what had been ascertained in the abstract and by the discovery of the law. Now, on the other hand, that is a popular work which gives back to the people their own errors and prejudices, and flatters the many by creating them, under the title of the public, into a supreme and unappealable tribunal of intellectual excellence.
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    When you have arrived at your country house and have saluted your household, you should make the rounds of the farm the same day, if possible; if not, then certainly the next day. When you have observed how the field work has progressed, what things have been done, and what remains undone, you should summon your overseer the next day, and should call for a report of what work has been done in good season and why it has not been possible to complete the rest, and what wine and corn and other crops have been gathered.
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      I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
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        Labour is blossoming or dancing where
        The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
        Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
        Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
        O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
        Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
        O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
        How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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