Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.


An Apology for Idlers. - Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)


Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.