Benjamin Disraeli

“ Entering one of these, and taking up a dim lamp that was placed on the stone of an empty hearth, Devilsdust led his friend through several unoccupied and unfurnished rooms, until he came to one in which there were some signs of occupation.
"Now, Mick," said he, in a very earnest, almost solemn tone, "are you firm?"
"All right, my hearty," replied his friend, though not without some affectation of ease.
"There is a good deal to go through," said Devilsdust. "It tries a man." ”

“ Hear, hear," he suddenly exclaimed, as Gerard threw off a stinging sentence. "Ah! that's the man for the people. You will see, Mick, whatever happens, Gerard is the man who will always lead."
Gerard had ceased amid enthusiastic plaudits, and Warner—that hand-loom weaver whom the reader may recollect, and who had since become a popular leader and one of the principal followers of Gerard—had also addressed the multitude. ”

“ The worst passions of our nature are enlisted in support of piece-work. Avarice, meanness, cunning, hypocrisy, all excite and feed upon the miserable votary who works by the task and not by the hour. A man who earns by piece-work forty shillings per week, the usual wages for day-work being twenty, robs his fellows of a week's employment ”

“ Suddenly that movement ceased; there was a pause of a few minutes; at length a voice spoke. "I denounce John Briars."
"Why?" said another.
"He offers to take nothing but piece-work; the man who does piece-work is guilty of less defensible conduct than a drunkard. ”