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• "Neither above nor below his business. [Lat., Par negotiis neque supra.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (VI, 39)
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• "All inconsiderate enterprises are impetuous at first, but soon lanquish. [Lat., Omnia inconsulti impetus coepta, initiis valida, spatio languescunt.]"
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (III, 58)
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• "Not because of any extraordinary talents did he succeed, but because he had a capacity on a level for business and not above it."
  By: Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus)
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• "How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!"
  By: Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims
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• "There's two words to that bargain."
  By: Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (dialogue III)
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• "Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination."
  By: Jonathan Swift
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• "To men addicted to delights, business is an interruption; to such as are cold to delights, business is an entertainment. For which reason it was said to one who commended a dull man for his application: "No thanks to him; if he had no business, he would have nothing to do.""
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
  By: Adam Smith (1)
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• "The great secret both of health and successful industry is the absolute yielding up of one's consciousness to the business and diversion of the hour--never permitting the one to infringe in the least degree upon the other."
  By: Jean Charles Sismondi
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• "Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "Pisa, renowned for grave citizens, Gave me my being and my father first, A merchant of great traffic through the world, Vincentio, come of the Bentivolii."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Lucentio at I, i)
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• ". . . And where thou now exacts the penalty, Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh, Thou will not only loose the forfeiture, But touched with human gentleness and love, Forgive a moiety of the principal, Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, That have of late so huddled on his back-- Enow to press a royal merchant down And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint, From stubborn Turks and Tartars never trained To offices of tender courtesy."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (Duke of Venice at IV, i) BUY VARYING HARE USED BOOK
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• "Traffic's thy god; and thy god confound thee!"
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, i)
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• "It is a man's office, but not yours."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice at IV, i)
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• "To things a sale a seller's praise belongs; She passes praise; then praise too short doth blot."
  By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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• "Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, Ang'ring itself and others."
  By: William Shakespeare, King Lear (Edgar at IV, i)
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