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A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

A good, very good, not to say admirable schoolmaster, but then he is only a schoolmaster.

Very Good, Admirable

"Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 31), 1982.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

Henry George

Sunshine, Men, Creative

Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.330, Cosimo, Inc.

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.

Henry George

Business, Wages, World

Henry George (1911). “perplexed philosopher [Herbert Spencer”

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

Henry George

Business, Progress, Social

Henry George (2006). “Social Problems”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

Henry George

Wisdom, Men, Numbers

Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not.

Henry George

Gentleman, Tools, Use

Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.37, Cosimo, Inc.