Source: In the Ravine (1900), Ch. 6, pp. 216
“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”
“The superannuated man”
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
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