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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workma

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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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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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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Labor Day
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. – Adam Smith

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A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. – David Herbert Lawrence

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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger. – Akhenaton

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