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Occupations-Mercantile: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
In every age and clime we see, Two of a trade can ne'er agree.— GAY — Fables. Rat-Catcher and Cats. L. 43.
A manufacturing district *** sends out, as it were, suckers into all its neighborhood.— HALLAM — View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages. Ch. IX.
Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt, The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, The Douglas in red herrings..— FITZ — GREENE HALLECK-Alnwick
C. Castle. Those that are above business.— MATHEW HENRY — Commentaries.
Matthew XX. Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Line added to
Goldsmith's Deserted Village. There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.— LOWELL — Among My Books. New
England Two Centuries Ago. Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.— BULWER-LYTTON — Caxtoniana. Essay
XXVI. Readers and Writers. The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrow'd name.— PRIOR — An Ode. The Merchant, to
Secure his Treasure. No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.— SIR WALTER RALEIGH — Love the Only
Price of Love. A merchant of great traffic through the world.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 12.
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 40.
I'll give thrice so much land To any well-deserving friend; But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 137.
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.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 27.
To business that we love we rise betime, And go to 't with delight.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 20.