| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61968 |
| QUOTATION: | There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about “the working classes,” and satisfy themselves that a day’s hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day’s hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much bigger pay.... As far as I’m concerned, there isn’t money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down—and I will be satisfied, too.... The law of work does seem utterly unfair—but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. Hank Morgan, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, ch. 28 (1889). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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