What we prepare for is what we shall get.
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The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house.William Graham Sumner
He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.
William Graham Sumner
Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.
William Graham Sumner
In the New Testament it is taught that willing and voluntary service to others is the highest duty and glory in human life.... The men of talent are constantly forced to serve the rest. They make the discoveries and inventions, order the battles, write the books, and produce the works of art. The benefit and enjoyment go to the whole. There are those who joyfully order their own lives so that they may serve the welfare of mankind.
William Graham Sumner
A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.
William Graham Sumner
A great deal is said about the unearned increment from land, especially with a view to the large gains of landlords in old countries.
William Graham Sumner
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