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“The labour, for instance, seemed to me by no means so hard, so penal, and only long afterwards I realised that the hardness, the penal character of the work lay not so much in its being difficult and uninterrupted as in its being compulsory, obligatory, enforced.

The peasant in freedom works, dare I say, incomparably harder, sometimes even all night, but he is working for himself.”

“Often a man is patient for several years, is resigned, endures most cruel punishment, and suddenly breaks out over some little thing, some trifle, a mere nothing.”