Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 29

By the working man, we do not mean merely the man who labours with his muscles and sinews. A horse can do this. But _he_ is pre-eminently the working man who works with his brain also, and whose whole physical system is under the influence of his higher faculties. The man who paints a picture, who writes a book, who makes a law, who creates a poem, is a working man of the highest order,--not so necessary to the physical sustainment of the community as the ploughman or the shepherd; but not less important as providing for society its highest intellectual nourishment.

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