 | Interesting tales - 1858 - 220 pages
...7. Be careful not to remain in a favourite employment longer than the duties of the day will allow : there is often more true diligence in leaving off than in beginning. 8. When you leave a room in which you have been occupied, look around to see that nothing you have... | |
 | 1821 - 458 pages
...dashing down or endangering the china, bronzes, or flower-glasses which dwell upon that station. " Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer...happens to lie before you, though unattended by any circumstances to render it interesting ; as it induces a desultory style of reading, and enervates... | |
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Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer than the duties of the day will allow; and recollect that there is often more true diligence in leaving off than in beginning. Refrain, too, from taking up a book, or even a newspaper, merely because... 