Famous quotes containing the word labour:
“Measure not the work
Until the days out and the labour done,
Then bring your gauges.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“What a vast traffic is drove, what a variety of labour is performed in the world to the maintenance of thousands of families that altogether depend on two silly if not odious customs; the taking of snuff and smoking of tobacco; both of which it is certain do infinitely more hurt than good to those that are addicted to them!”
—Bernard Mandeville (16701733)
“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
Cheers the tars labour or the Turkmans rest.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
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