"There is no real wealth but the labor…" — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
• I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in… — Saint Augustine
• A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work… — James A. Baldwin
• Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
• It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than… — Charles Baudelaire
• Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to… — Warren Beatty
• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. — Max Beerbohm
• We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the… — Carol Bellamy
• Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the… — Grace Abbott
• I believe that summer is our time, a time for the people, and that no politician should be allowed to… — Lewis Black
• Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How… — Allan Bloom

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