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Such a fun author. Nobody describes people like dickens does

Charles Dickens - On Strike: ""I believe;" said I, "that into the relations between employers and employed, as into all the relations of this life, there must enter something of feeling and sentiment; something of mutual explanation, forbearance and consideration, something which [...] is not stateable in figures; otherwise thise relations are wrong and rotten at the core and will never bear sound fruit"

"The good grown-up baby invariably got to the savings-bank, and the bad grown-up baby invariably got transported"

Additional material - Frauds on the Fairies by Chsrles Dickens in Household Words 1853
"In a utalitarian age *** it is a matter of grave importance that Faury tales should be respected.*** A nation without fancy, without some romance, never did, never can, never will, hold a great place under the sun"