Famous quotes containing the word labour:
“There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)
“We have much studied and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of labour; only we give it a false name. It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
Until the days out and the labour done.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
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