Quote by Adam Smith
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was pa

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. – Adam Smith

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – Adam Smith

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. – Ovid

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil. – Henry van Dyke

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If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. – Doug Larson

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The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. – Theodore Roosevelt

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Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. – William Penn

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