Robinson/ships

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    If factory-labor is not a means of education to the operative of to-day, it is because the employer does not do his duty. It is because he treats his work-people like machines, and forgets that they are struggling, hoping, despairing human beings.
    —Harriet H. Robinson (1825–1911)

    Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)