Quote#Money & Wealth
I have carried a dinner pail and worked for day's wages, and I have…
Quote byElbert Green Hubbard · 1856–1915
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Message to Garcia (1899).
English (original)
I have carried a dinner pail and worked for day's wages, and I have also been an employer of labor, and I know there is something to be said on both sides. There is no excellence, per se, in poverty; rags are no recommendation; and all employers are not rapacious and high-handed, any more than all poor men are virtuous.
— Elbert Green Hubbard
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