I can’t understand why more intelligent people don’t take it as a career—learn to do it well and reap its benefits. A good servant has absolute security, not because of his master’s kindness, but because of habit and indolence. It’s a hard thing for a man to change spices or lay out his own socks. He’ll keep a bad servant rather than change.
 John Steinbeck, East of Eden (1952). copy citation

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Author John Steinbeck
Source East of Eden
Topic kindness indolence
Date 1952
Language English
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