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“Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

Adam Smith quotes (Scottish philosopher and economist, 1723-1790)

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“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it”

Samuel Johnson quotes (English Poet, Critic and Writer. 1709-1784)

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“Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess”

Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes (French philosopher and writer whose novels inspired the leaders of the French Revolution, 1712-1778)

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“Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over”

Henry George quotes

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“Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.”

Bishop Desmond Tutu quotes (African Spiritual leader and Novelist, b.1931)

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“Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister”

Thorstein Veblen quotes (American Economist, 1857-1929)

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“The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor”

William Cobbett quotes (Pseudonym Peter Porcupine, English popular journalist, champion of traditional rural England against the Industrial Revolution, 1763-1835)

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“Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.”

Mary Ellen Chase quotes (American scholar, teacher, and writer, 1887-1973)

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“The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor.”

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. 1828-1910)

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“Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.”

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