#arduous

It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. ↗

— Titus Livius

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The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

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Golf seems to be an arduous way to go for a walk. I prefer to take the dog's out. ↗

— Princess Anne

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Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril. ↗

— Xenophon

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I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process. ↗

— Jane Fonda

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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good. ↗

— L. Sprague de Camp

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It was never physically dangerous except when I nearly fell off a horse, but it was physically arduous - especially when you were working late at night. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done. ↗

— Katey Sagal

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True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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