It is not much matter what you read, what you do. Be a scholar & you shall have the scholar’s part of anything.
As in the Counting Room, the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla; the transaction a letter of credit or transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it; so you shall get your commission out of the hour & the object whether it is a concentrated or a wasteful employment, even in reading a bad book, or working off the chare of a solicited criticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 7:37
As in the Counting Room, the merchant cares little whether the cargo be hides or barilla; the transaction a letter of credit or transfer of stocks; be it what it may, his commission comes gently out of it; so you shall get your commission out of the hour & the object whether it is a concentrated or a wasteful employment, even in reading a bad book, or working off the chare of a solicited criticism.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks 7:37
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