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Quotation from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
“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, Book the Third, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #786 text)
After helping Tom escape, Sleary asks Gradgrind not to be hard on circus folk, stating the novel's case for play.
Citation: "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." — Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Book the Third, Chapter VIII (Project Gutenberg #786 text). (id hard-times-q7)
Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.
