[Vampiromud-bug-hunters] Never paled yet, never lost its novelty for me sinc

Tue Sep 1 18:57:24 CEST 2009

H. We rescued him, and fetched him around. It was some more human
nature; the admiring little folk imitating their elders; they were
playing mob, and had achieved a success which promised to be a good deal
more serious than they had bargained for. It was not a dull excursion
for me. I managed to put in the time very well. I made various
acquaintanceships, and in my quality of stranger was able to ask as many
questions as I wanted to. A thing which naturally interested me, as a
statesman, was the matter of wages. I picked up what I could under that
head during the afternoon. A man who hasn't had much experience, and
doesn't think, is apt to measure a nation's prosperity or lack of
prosperity by the mere size of the prevailing wages; if the wages be
high, the nation is prosperous; if low, it isn't. Which is an error. It
isn't what sum you get, it's how much you can buy with it, that's the
important thing; and it's that that tells whether your wages ar
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