Dickens nailed it.

[kpete]

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But Dickens nailed it.

[Wounded Bear]

1. In all fairness, that was a from Dickens character, not Dickens himself...

Good quote, but it is by the character from Christmas Carol Ebeneezer Scrooge, not Charles Dickens, who experienced the depradations of his era first hand.

[world wide wally]

2. Dickens put the words in the character's mouth

[enough]

3. Exactly. He was perfectly and very consciously manifesting a particular

worldview.

[3catwoman3]

4. Are there no prisons?

Are there no workhouses?

[monmouth4]

6. The first time I ever heard that and it was many years ago, I thought, how republican..LOL..n/t

[AJT]

5. From A Christmas Carol

"This boy is IGNORANCE . This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom..."