Saturday, August 30, 2025

 

Today’s Totally Random Lines 

                              

You, Polydore, have proved best woodsman, and

Are master of the feast: Caldwell and I

Will play the cook and servant; ‘tis our match:

The sweat of industry would dry and die,

But for the end it works to.

 

Belarius       

Cymbeline                 Act III, Scene vi, Line 28                                   

 

And there you have Will’s opinion, and apparent endorsement, of capitalism.

The sweat of industry would dry and die,

But for the end it works to.

Do you agree with this assessment?



Those lines have the words ‘sweat’ and ‘work’ in them, and you're asking me if I agree with them? 

What do you think?

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