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Hazlitt, William - Works
Identifier
013200
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
William Hazlitt - Works
The man of business and fortune ... is up and in the city by eight, swallows his breakfast in haste, attends a meeting of creditors, must read Lloyd's lists, consult the price of consols, study the markets, look into his accounts, pay his workmen, and superintend his clerks: he has hardly a minute in the day to himself, and perhaps in the four-and-twenty hours does not do a single thing that he would do if he could help it.
Surely, this sacrifice of time and inclination requires some compensation, which it meets with.
But how am I entitled to make my fortune (which cannot be done without all this anxiety and drudgery) who do hardly any thing at all, and never any thing but what I like to do? I rise when I please, breakfast at length, write what comes into my head, and after taking a mutton-chop and a dish of strong tea, go to the play, and thus my time passes.
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Hazlitt, WilliamConcepts, symbols and science items
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Activities and commonsteps
Activities
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Beauty, art and musicBeing left handed
Home schooling
Reducing desires
Relaxation
Suppressing obligations