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 * 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 1, ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection
 * the world […] has had no time to think of dividing the wages; and has merely left them to be scrambled for by the Law of the Stronger, law of Supply-and-demand, law of Laissez-faire, and other idle Laws and Un-laws, saying, in its dire haste to get the work done, That is well enough!
 * 1880 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, For The Holy Family, By Michelangelo, lines 3-5
 * Infinite
 * The sorrows that thy manhood's lot must rue
 * And dire acquaintance of thy grief.