Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 104

Goldsmith spoke of the country curate as "passing rich with forty pounds a year." The incomes of curates have certainly increased since the time when Goldsmith wrote, but nothing like the incomes of skilled and unskilled workmen. If curates merely worked for money, they would certainly change their vocation, and become colliers and iron-workers.

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Locator：Excerpt 104 · Verified：2026-10-19 · Verification：Short excerpt

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