1,715. Bustle
"There is no kind of idleness, 
by which we are so easily seduced,
as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business,
and, by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to
do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation,
and hurries him rapidly from place to place."
Johnson: Idler #48 (March 17, 1759)
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1,717. Bustle
"The greater part of those whom the kindness of fortune has left
to their own directions, and whom want does not keep chained to
the counter or the plough, play throughout life with the
shadows of business, and know not at last what they have been
doing."
Johnson: Idler #48 (March 17, 1759)
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1,754. Bustle; Ouch!
We all got ready with dispatch. Dr. Johnson was displeased at my
bustling, and walking quickly up and down. He said, "It does not
hasten us a bit. It is getting on horseback in a ship. All boys
do it; and you are longer a boy than others."
James Boswell: A Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides
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