In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.

Genesis 3:19, King James Bible

I’m not prone to quoting the bible, but isn’t this exactly the life of a sovereign professional? No-one’s saying sweat needs to be a bad thing, it’s the consequence of hard work. In other versions, the passage becomes, “By the sweat of your brow…” and, interestingly, it has given rise to the “sweat of the brow” copyright doctrine by which a creator gains rights “through simple diligence during the creation of a work.”

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