If any service is very much underpaid, it is very apt to suffer by the meanness and incapacity of the greater part of those who are employed in it. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
This in itself was not a bad thing for the lower clergy in France, who were often scandalously underpaid in comparison with the richer dignitaries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.