Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Crea...tive Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkabl...e what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »