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Labor is work that leaves no trace behind it when it is finished, or if it does, as in the case of the tilled field, this product of human activity requires still more labor, incessant, tireless labor, to maintain its identity as a work of man.

Source: The Vita Activa, in New Yorker (18 Oct. 1958; repr. in On the Contrary, 1961).
-- Mary McCarthy, (Jun 21 1912-1989), US novelist, critic; She was noted for witty acerbic novels and writings about art and politics; wrote The Company She Keeps, 1942 and How I Grew, 1987.

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