Sunday, September 7, 2008

Thoreau

"The world is a place of business. What infinite bustle! I am awakened almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no Sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work."

From The Atlantic Monthly, 1863 in an essay entitled "Life Without Principle"

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