Portable Wisdom

Only Two Sources of Real Wealth

We have had to learn the bitter lesson that in all the world there are only two sources of real wealth: the fruit of the earth and the labor of men; and to estimate work not by the money it brings to the producer, but by the worth of the thing that is made.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

From the essay “Why Work?”

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