Samuel Smiles：Thrift, Excerpt 26

Who have helped the world onward so much as the workers; men who have had to work for necessity or from choice? All that we call progress--civilization, well-being, and prosperity--depends upon industry, diligently applied,--from the culture of a barley-stalk, to the construction of a steamship,--from the stitching of a collar, to the sculpturing of "the statue that enchants the world."

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