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" It is not that men are ill fed, but that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men are pained by the scorn of the upper classes, but they cannot endure... "
John Ruskin: A Study - Page 82
by Robert Percival Downes - 1890 - 119 pages
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Bernard Shaw and the Aesthetes

Elsie Bonita Adams - Art and literature - 1971 - 232 pages
...that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men...verily a degrading one, and makes them less than men.' By encouraging a workman to express his uniqueness and thus accepting his human imperfection, society...
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The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture Before the First World War

Frederic J. Schwartz - Art - 1996 - 278 pages
...that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men...is verily a degrading one, and makes them less than men.169 Within the Werkbund, however, the division of labor was not only accepted as unavoidable; it...
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News from Nowhere

William Morris - Fiction - 2002 - 368 pages
...that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men...a degrading one, and makes them less than men.... We have much studied, and much perfected, of late, the great civilized invention of the division of...
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The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art and Its Application to Decoration and ...

John Ruskin - Art - 2004 - 192 pages
...that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men...kind of labour to which they are condemned is verily charity for them, as they have at this day, and yet never were they so much hated by them: for, of...
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The Railroad Telegrapher, Volume 39, Part 1

1922 - 648 pages
...that they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure. It is not that men...cannot endure their own; for they feel that the kind of labor to which they are condemned is verily a degrading one, and makes them less than men.— Jokn...
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