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It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.
Song and Singing
Hilaire Belloc

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Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade.
Learning
James Bennis

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The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
Trade Unions
Ernest Bevin

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A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug.
Literature
George Borrow

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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Critics and Criticism
Lord Byron

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War is the trade of Kings.
War
John Dryden

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Trade
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.
Labor
Benjamin Franklin

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No nation was ever ruined by trade.
Economy and Economics
Benjamin Franklin

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Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
Politicians and Politics
Muhammad Hijazi

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In the long run, free trade benefits everyone; in the short run it is bound to produce much pain.
Free Enterprise
Henry Hobhouse

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Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.
Rivalry
Elbert Hubbard

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Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
Literature
Dean William R. Inge

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It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
Law and Lawyers
Thomas Jefferson

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Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
Treason
Douglas William Jerrold

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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
Chastity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
Memory
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
Preachers and Preaching
Sir Isaac Newton

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Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
Economy and Economics
John Ruskin

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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
Writers and Writing
George Sand

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
Virtue
George Bernard Shaw

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War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
War
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Who has a trade may go anywhere.
Skill
Spanish Proverb

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Men have become the tools of their trade.
Work
Henry David Thoreau

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To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
Law and Lawyers
Mark Twain

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun