Status Updates From Hard Times

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"

"The star had shown him where to find the God of the poor; and through humility, and sorrow, and forgiveness, he had gone to his Redeemer's rest"

"...after the manner of those pious persons who do penance for their own sins by putting other people into sackclothes"

"Can a man have no soul of his own, no mind of his own?"

"The capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands (workers) didn't each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat"

(About buying things and selling them at a higher price) "...it having been clearly ascertained by philosophers that in this comprised the whole duty of man - not a part of man's duty, but the whole"

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