Quote 81
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Context / explanation
Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Evidences
1998: Dictionary of Quotations, ISBN 9781853264894, Page 115, Publisher Wordsworth Editions, Evidence
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