“When pleasure is made a business, it ceases to be pleasure.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 115
“The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.”
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
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