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If the sign outside says OCCUPIED," the booklet advises, "wait a while.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Let every man be OCCUPIED, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best"—Sydney Smith.

From Character by Smiles, Samuel