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is a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.

A dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing

is responsible for killing more men than the importance of this world justifies.

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

is best avoided ---- a rope too tightly drawn is apt to tear

is unwise --- if you burn the candle at both ends you are not as bright as you think.

If you burn the candle at both ends you are not as bright as you think.

, in Japan, is consciously engineered into the system to displace or discourage resistance.

Miyamoto traces the history of Japan's 'overwork psychosis' to the Tokugawa period, when each provincial warlord was commanded to appear in Edo, the capital, every second year, along with a vast entourage of advisers, samurai, horsemen, and other members of his court. The grandiose yet obsessively precise protocols surrounding these official pilgrimages demanded that officials visit other lords along their route, present each vassal with elaborate gifts, attend formal banquets, and perform other ceremonial duties. Provincial leaders competed with one another in order to display their wealth and lordly authority. Yet preparing for and then completing these arduous biennial expeditions became so time-consuming that potential rivals never had sufficient energy to plot a coup.

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is unhealthy --- An overloaded peg gets broken.

is unwise --- If you undertake nine jobs, starvation will be the tenth.

If you undertake nine jobs, starvation will be the tenth.

is unwise --- It is not the load but the overload that kills.

It is not the load but the overload that kills.

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