We’ve never read a credo that featured lazing about or having children or skipping out. Credos almost always center on putting goodness into the world through a lifetime of working. Bernard DeVoto’s is a case:
I should find it hard to state exactly what my ambition as a mature man is. It would run something like this: to do good work, to do work in which I may take some satisfaction and my friends some pleasure; at the utmost, as Frost once said of Robinson, to put something on the record that will not easily be dislodged.
(Quoted from page 294 of The Life of the Creative Spirit, by H. Charles Romesburg. Xlibris, 2001.)
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