“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”
Vol. 2, letter 3.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)
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“5711. Who more busy than they that have least to do?”
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“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
29 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)