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But his son, succeeding to the business, determined, like Rehoboam of old, to go ahead with the times. Fired with the great spirit of the nineteenth century--at least with that one which is vulgarly considered its especial glory--he resolved to make haste to be rich. His father had made money very slowly of late; while dozens, who had begun business long after him, had now retired to luxurious ease and suburban villas. Why should he remain in the minority? Why should he not get rich as fast as he could? Why should he stick to the old, slow-going, honorable trade? Out of some four hundred and fifty West-end tailors, there were not one hundred left who were old-fashioned and stupid enough to go on keeping down their own profits by having all their work done at home and at firsthand.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet. An Autobiography. by Charles Kingsley.
• Author: Charles Kingsley
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448
• EAN: 9781425549251
• ISBN: 9781425549251
• ID: 03168295
• Publisher: University of Michigan Library
• Weight: 621 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. September 2006

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