Fors clavigera : letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain (1886)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 26
ll, whether it isreally work that you want, orrest? I thought you rather ob-jected to your quantity of work ;—that you were all for havingeight hours of it instead of ten ?You may have twelve instead often easily. Sixteen, if you like !if it is only occupation you want,why do you cast the iron ?… … FOBS CLAVIGEBA. 23 say vou knew the cunning of a mans right hand. But 1think it is pay that you want, not work ; and it is very truethat pretty ironwork like that does not pay ; but it is pretty,and it might even be entertaining, if you made those leavesat the top of it (which are, as far as I can…
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