The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest wi…

Robert Frost
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. ✨ The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom. Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.
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