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Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Also Every Every Man He Help Intellectual Man Mankind Physical Planet Should Some Think Thinker Word Work Worker

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Bierce radiates brilliancy, and perhaps no other man of letters ever had a more ready command of condensed expression. For him, each word has its unique place in the peerage of words, and he would not use a word out of place any sooner than he would thrust an ape into a captain's saddle.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Any Ape Captain Command Condensed Each Ever Expression Had He Him Letters Man More Other Out Perhaps Place Ready Saddle Sooner Than Thrust Unique Use Word Words Would

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Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Away Beauty Cheap Competitive Effort Ends Fight Goods Ground High High Ground Human Labor Quagmire Should Struggle Swings Us Use

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Greed and Gain, grim guardians of the great god Mammon, continually cry in the ears of the poor, 'Give us your little ones!' And forever do the poor push out their little ones at the imperious ukase, feeding the children to a blind Hunger that is never filled.

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Blind Children Continually Cry Ears Feeding Filled Forever Gain Give God Great Greed Grim Guardians Hunger Little Never Out Poor Push Us Your

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Is it not a grotesque civilization which sends missionaries across the sea to save the souls of the heathen, and yet permits conditions at home that debauch the children at our very doors?

~Edwin Markham

Topics: Across Children Civilization Conditions Doors Grotesque Heathen Home Missionaries Our Permits Save Sea Sends Souls Very Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: April 23rd, 1852

Died: March 7th, 1940

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