He enjoyed it, for every hour in school was an hour sitting down doing nothing harder than reading. Before… — Robert A. Heinlein
He enjoyed it, for every hour in school was an hour sitting down doing nothing harder than reading. Before and after school he had to do chores on his family’s farm, which he hated, as they were what was known as “honest work” — meaning hard, dirty, inefficient, and ill-paid — and also involved getting up early, which he hated even worse.
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