“It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“People mutht be amuthed. They can’t be alwayth a learning, nor yet they can’t be alwayth a working, they an’t made for it.”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“This, again, was among the fictions of Coketown. Any capitalist there, who had made sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, always professed to wonder why the sixty thousand nearest Hands didn’t each make sixty thousand pounds out of sixpence, and more or less reproached them every one for not accomplishing the little feat. What I did you can do. Why don’t you go and do it?”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
“They who pass their whole lives in working for their daily bread, have no ideas beyond their business or their interest, and all their understanding seems to lie in their fingers’ ends.”
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
― A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Providence had seen fit to make them only hands, or, like the lower creatures of the seashore, only hands and stomachs—”
― Hard Times
― Hard Times
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