Increased Pension Raises

Famous quotes containing the words increased, pension and/or raises:

    The work of the miner has its unavoidable incidents of discomfort and danger, and these should not be increased by the neglect of the owners to provide every practicable safety appliance. Economies which involve a sacrifice of human life are intolerable.
    Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    “Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list ‘cos his mother’s uncle’s vife’s grandfather vunce lit the king’s pipe vith a portable tinder-box.”
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)