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Labor Quotes by William Graham Sumner
- Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.
- Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an…
- There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.
- Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious,…
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- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
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- No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
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