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 propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals. – Adam Smith

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. – Adam Smith

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Without labor nothing prospers. – Sophocles

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A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. – Thomas Jefferson

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It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything. – John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690

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

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