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It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else.
— Rectorial Address, St. Andrew's, May 3, 1922
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Barrie offers a wry test for real work. If you'd rather be doing something else, it counts. Effort you'd happily do all day is more like play, and the joke sits in that neat, rueful definition.
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