“The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 368
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“The poor man's price of admittance to the favor of the rich is his self-respect.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 368
William Cobbett (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
‘Observations on Priestley's Emigration’ (August 1794), Porcupine's Works; containing various writings and selections, exhibiting a faithful picture of the United States of America, Volume I (1801), p. 169
1790s
“Self-respect without the respect of others is like a jewel which will not stand the daylight.”
Alfred Nobel (1833–1896) Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer
George Bernard Shaw The Doctor's Dilemma
Preface http://books.google.com/books?id=aniaAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+who+is+occupied+in+doing+a+very+difficult+thing+and+doing+it+very+well+ever+loses+his+self-respect%22&pg=PR22#v=onepage <br class="br">1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) <br class="br">Variant: No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty
Source: The Art of War, Chapter XI · The Nine Battlegrounds
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
17 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Douglas McGregor (1906–1964) American professor
Douglas McGregor (1957), "The Human Side of Enterprise," in: Adventure in Thought and Action, Proceedings of the Fifth Anniversary Convocation of the School of Industrial Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, April 9, 1957. Cambridge, MA: MIT School of Industrial Management.
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
On the organisation of the National Guard (5 December 1790)
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