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Wages . 'A fair day's wages for a fair day's work,' is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing; yet in what corner of this planet was that ever realised? {Carlyle.}
Wages . (chaff) , , perquisites in his service are better than the wages others give. - Kings' caff {i.e.}
Wages . Blame is the lazy man's wages. {Danish. Proverb.}
Wages . Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but teaches as no other. {Carlyle.}
Wages . Literature happens to be the only occupation in which wages are not given in proportion to the goodness of the work done. {Froude.}
Wages . Make thy claim of wages for this world, and all worlds, at zeroat nothing; thus, and thus only, hast thou the world at thy feet. {Carlyle.}
Wages . Mind your work, and God will find your wages. {Proverb.}
Wages . Pay good wages, or your servants will pay themselves. {Proverb.}
Wages . The wages of a good workman are never too high. - Un bon ouvrier n'est jamais trop chèrement {French. Proverb.}
Wages . Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. {Quarles.}
 
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Gavelet : n. An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent.

 
Based on the Dictionary of Quotations From Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources by Rev.James Woods, published originally in 1893 by Frederick Warne & Co
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