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There is nothing to running a business by custom--to saying: "I pay the going rate of wages." The same man would not so easily say: "I have nothing better or cheaper to sell than any one has." No manufacturer in his right mind would contend that buying only the cheapest materials is the way to make certain of manufacturing the best article. Then why do we hear so much talk about the "liquidation of labour" and the benefits that will flow to the country from cutting wages--which means only the cutting of buying power and the curtailing of the home market? What good is industry if it be so unskillfully managed as not to return a living to everyone concerned? No question is more important than that of wages--most of the people of the country live on wages. The scale of their living--the rate of their wages--determines the prosperity of the country.

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Chapter VIII, excerpt 77

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涼州都督長樂王幼良，性粗暴，左右百餘人，皆無賴子弟，侵暴百姓；又與羌、胡互市。或告幼良有異志，上遣中書令宇文士及馳驛代之，並按其事。左右懼，謀劫幼良入北虜，又欲殺士及據有河西。復有告其謀者，夏，四月，癸巳，賜幼良死。

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卷192·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之上貞觀元年（丁亥，公元六二七年）·第13则

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「古者，椎車無柔，棧輿無植。及其後，木軨不衣，長轂數幅，蒲薦苙蓋，蓋無漆絲之飾。大夫士則單椱木具，盤韋柔革。常民漆輿大軨蜀輪。今庶人富者銀黃華左搔，結綏韜杠。中者錯鑣塗采，珥靳飛軨。

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卷6·散不足第二十九·第11则

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壬午，以左驍衛大將軍契苾何力為浿江道行軍大總管，左武衛大將軍蘇定方為遼東道行軍大總管，左驍衛將軍劉伯英為平壤道行軍大總管，蒲州刺史程名振為鏤方道總管，將兵分道擊高麗。青州刺史劉仁軌坐督海運覆船，以白衣從軍自效。

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卷200·高宗天皇大聖大弘孝皇帝上之下顯慶五年（庚申，公元六六零年）·第16则

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As my father succeeded in the weaving business we removed from Moodie Street to a much more commodious house in Reid's Park. My father's four or five looms occupied the lower story; we resided in the upper, which was reached, after a fashion common in the older Scottish houses, by outside stairs from the pavement. It is here that my earliest recollections begin, and, strangely enough, the first trace of memory takes me back to a day when I saw a small map of America. It was upon rollers and about two feet square. Upon this my father, mother, Uncle William, and Aunt Aitken were looking for Pittsburgh and pointing out Lake Erie and Niagara. Soon after my uncle and Aunt Aitken sailed for the land of promise.

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Chapter I, excerpt 4

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