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The quantity of industry which any capital can employ, must evidently be equal to the number of workmen whom it can supply with materials, tools, and a maintenance suitable to the nature of the work. Money may be requisite for purchasing the materials and tools of the work, as well as the maintenance of the workmen; but the quantity of industry which the whole capital can employ, is certainly not equal both to the money which purchases, and to the materials, tools, and maintenance, which are purchased with it, but only to one or other of those two values, and to the latter more properly than to the former.

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Book II, Chapter II, paragraph 746

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初，上遣突厥俟利苾可汗北渡河，薛延陀真珠可汗恐其部落翻動，意甚惡之，豫蓄輕騎於漠北，欲擊之。上遣使戒敕無得相攻。真珠可汗對曰：「至尊有命，安敢不從！然突厥翻覆難期，當其未破之時，歲犯中國，殺人以千萬計。臣以為至尊克之，當剪為奴婢，以賜中國之人；乃反養之如子，其恩德至矣，而結社率竟反。此屬獸心，安可以人理待也！臣荷恩深厚，請為至尊誅之。」自是數相攻。

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卷197·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之下貞觀十八年（甲辰，公元六四四年）·第31则

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文學曰：「周道衰，王跡熄，諸侯爭強，大小相淩。是以強國務侵，弱國設備。甲士勞戰陣，役於兵革，故君勞而民困苦也。今中國為一統，而方內不安，徭役遠而外內煩也。古者，無過年之繇，無逾時之役。今近者數千里，遠者過萬里，歷二期。長子不還，父母愁憂，妻子詠嘆，憤懣之恨發動於心，慕思之積痛於骨髓。此杕杜、采薇之所為作也。」

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卷9·繇役第四十九·第4则

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五月，辛未，以突利為順州都督，使帥其部落之官。上戒之曰：「爾祖啟民挺身奔隋，隋立以為大可汗，奄有北荒，爾父始畢反為隋患。天道不容，故使爾今日亂亡如此。我所以不立爾為可汗者，懲啟民前事故也。今命爾為都督，爾宜善守國法，勿相侵掠，非徒欲中國久安，亦使爾宗族永全也！」

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卷193·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之中貞觀四年（庚寅，公元六三零年）·第17则

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My business was now continually augmenting, and my circumstances growing daily easier, my newspaper having become very profitable, as being for a time almost the only one in this and the neighbouring provinces. I experienced, too, the truth of the observation, "that after getting the first hundred pound, it is more easy to get the second," money itself being of a prolific nature.

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Excerpt 50

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