I do not like work even when someone else is doing it. ✨ Mark Twain (2…

Mark Twain
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I do not like work even when someone else is doing it. ✨ Mark Twain (2015). Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend, p.91, St. Martin's Press
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