“ There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! ”
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | A Christmas Carol |
| Topic | wealth poverty |
| Date | 1843 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm |
Context
“Another idol has displaced me; and if it can cheer and comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve. ” “ What Idol has displaced you? ” he rejoined.
“ A golden one. ” “ This is the even-handed dealing of the world! ” he said. There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! “ You fear the world too much, ” she answered, gently. “ All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.” source
“ A golden one. ” “ This is the even-handed dealing of the world! ” he said. There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! “ You fear the world too much, ” she answered, gently. “ All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.” source
