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Polemics
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When a quarter of a million miners are unemployed, it is a part of the order of things that Alf Smith, a miner living in the back-streets of Newcastle, should be out of work. But no human being finds it easy to regard himself as a statistical unit. So long as Bert Jones across the street is still at work, Alf Smith is bound to feel himself dishonoured and a failure.
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― The Road to Wigan Pier
― The Road to Wigan Pier
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Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.
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