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PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS
Wise men knew that this machinery would, in a few years, employ many times more than the number of persons at first turned adrift: but this truth did not feed those who were hungering now; and it is no wonder that their misery avenged itself on the machinery which was doing their work, and, as they declared, stealing their bread.
Harriet Martineau's Writing on British History. Volume 1, History of the Peace, Book 2
