The Reward of Labour

Hammond: No reward of labour? … The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
Guest: But no reward for especially good work
Hammond: Plenty of reward … the reward of creation. The wages which God gets, as people might have said time agone.

Hammond News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris

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Context: The visitor asks how people can be made to work hard in a society without wages.

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Source: Chapter XV

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