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working man

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A "working man" is an adult male who earns his living through a job, often manual or wage labor. It typically contrasts with management or ownership and implies working-class roots.

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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. Benjamin Franklin

What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow. Mary Harris Jones

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion. Margaret Sanger

My Dad, Fred Trump, was the smartest and hardest working man I ever knew. Donald Trump

There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good. Saul Bass

What's my line? I'm happy cleaning windows Take my time I'll see you when my love grows Baby don't let it slide I'm a working man in my prime Cleaning windows... Van Morrison

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