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1,719. Leisure; Subordination
"Why, Sir, I reconcile my principles very well, because mankind
are happier in a state of inequality and subordination. Were they
to be in this pretty state of equality, they would soon
degenerate into brutes;--they would become Monboddo's
nation;—their tails would grow. Sir, all would be losers,
were all to work for all:—they would have no intellectual
improvement; All intellectual improvement arises from leisure:
all leisure arises from one working for another."
Johnson (Boswell: Life of Johnson)
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