Labor Day

Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September, that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.

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Famous quotes containing the words labor and/or day:

    “There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The day in his hotness,
    The strife with the palm;
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    The stars in their calm . . .”
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