The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
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