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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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Missal : n. The book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year; a Mass book.; a. Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.

 
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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