re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Remember that under Calvinist Protestantism, work is a virtue unto itself, and we should be ready and willing to work for the sake of working and look on any remuneration for it simply as an added (but undeserved) bonus.

Well before Calvin, it is a key idea in RC monasticism. “Ora et Labora” quickly becomes “Labor est Ora”.

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edit: fixed declension.