More men are killed by overwork than the importance of this world justifies.

Rudyard Kipling

The Phantom Rickshaw

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Working too much Work-life balance Work

Speaker

Dr. Heatherlegh

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

The Phantom Rickshaw

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Writer

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Asia Europe

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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Phantom 'Rickshaw & other Eerie Tales. Prayagraj: A. H. Wheeler & Co., 1888.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Phantom 'Rickshaw." The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories. Dover Publications, 2013.

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Take up the White Man's burden —
Send forth the best ye breed —
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.

Rudyard Kipling

The White Man's Burden

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Topic
Imperialism

Author

Rudyard Kipling
Source
The White Man's Burden
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." The Times, 4 Feb. 1899, I. 1.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, I. 1.

Another quote from the 1880s

It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

Sociology

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Topic
Public policy Poverty

Author

William Graham Sumner
Source
Sociology
Medium
Essay
Genre
Sociology
Language
English
Time
1881 1880s 19th century
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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "Sociology." The Princeton Review, May 1881.

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In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

God

Genesis 3:19

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Work Original sin The human condition
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God
Source
Genesis The Bible
Medium
Scripture
Genre
Religious literature
Language
Hebrew
Time
1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 3:19).