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The Malady of the Century

CHAPTER IX
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But, on the other hand, that is what charity is there for.

We have hospitals for the sick, workhouses and parish relief for the aged and incapable, for lazy vagabonds who won't work, it is true, only the treadmill." "That is all very fine, but what are you going to do with the honest men who want to work but can find none ?" "Wilhelm, I have always had the highest respect for you, your wisdom, your intellect, but forgive me if I say that, in this case, you are talking of things you do not understand.

Everybody who wants work finds it.

I hope you will be at my place next summer.

Then you'll see how I positively sweat blood in harvest-time trying to get the necessary number of laborers together, and what I have to put up with from the rascals only to keep them in good humor.


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