I checked a little deeper and found that in Google Books this did not show up until 1986 when it appeared in a book by self-help guru Tony Robbins. After that, every repeat is after 1992, the Internet Age when quote attributions pretty much turned to mush. I agree with Gretchen that Robbins likely took this idea from Tom Sawyer and rewrote it completely. Further evidence is that it's missing from twainquotes.com, which seems to have a 100% track record for separating the wheat from the chaff. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Gretchen Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That resembles Twain's distinction between work and play in Tom Sawyer, > Ch.= > 2: "If he [Tom] had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of > = > this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a > = > body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not > obl= > iged to do" (33). =20 > Terry Ballard Assistant Director of Technical Services for Library Systems The New York Law School 185 West Broadway, New York, NY, 10013 212-431-2106 http://www.terryballard.org Author of the forthcoming book "Google this" http://googlethisforlibraries.com "My memory has a mind of its own."