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I think I know what you mean. You think that I have done you a service; so you feel yourself bound to give me something which I am not to give to a n… - William Morris
" "I think I know what you mean. You think that I have done you a service; so you feel yourself bound to give me something which I am not to give to a neighbour, unless he has done something special for me. I have heard of this kind of thing; but pardon me for saying, that it seems to us a troublesome and roundabout custom; and we don't know how to manage it. And you see this ferrying and giving people casts about the water is my business, which I would do for anybody; so to take gifts in connection with it would look very queer. Besides, if one person gave me something, then another might, and another, and so on; and I hope you won't think me rude if I say that I shouldn't know where to stow away so many mementos of friendship.
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About William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement.
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William M. Morris
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Je n'accepterai point d'endosser l'habit rouge du soldat ni qu'on m'envoie tirer sur mon ami français, allemand ou arabe dans une querelle dont le sens m'échappe : je me rebellerai plutôt. Je n'accepterai pas non plus de gaspiller mon temps et mon énergie à fabriquer un colifichet dont je sais que seul un imbécile en voudra : je me rebellerai plutôt.
Now shall the hard war-helm bedight with the gold
Be bereft of its plating; its polishers sleep,
They that the battle-mask erewhile should burnish:
Likewise the war-byrny, which abode in the battle
O'er break of the war-boards the bite of the irons, Crumbles after the warrior; nor may the ring'd byrny After the war-leader fare wide afield
On behalf of the heroes: nor joy of the harp is,
No game of the glee-wood; no goodly hawk now Through the hall swingeth; no more the swift horse Beateth the burg-stead. Now hath bale-quelling
A many of life-kin forth away sent.
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Così come stanno oggi le cose, con questo spreco di forza lavoro nella pura oziosità o nel lavoro improduttivo, è evidente che il mondo civile è sostenuto solo da una piccola parte dei suoi membri; qualora tutti lavorassero utilmente per sostenerlo, la quota di lavoro che ognuno dovrebbe svolgere sarebbe necessariamente limitata, anche se il nostro tenore di vita fosse simile a quello che la gente benestante e raffinata ritiene oggi desiderabile. Avremmo forza lavoro in eccesso, e saremmo, in breve, ricchi come vorremmo.
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