作家边缘—— 青子 ＿原创部落    复制

Whether work should be placed among

 the casses of happiness may perhaps

be regarded as adoubtful question.

There is certainly much work which

is exceedingly irksome , and an excess

of work is always very painful .

I think , however , that , provided

 work is not excessive in amount ,

 even the dullest work is to most

people less painful than idleness .

There are in work all grades ,

from mere relief of tedium up

to the profoundest delights ,

according to the nature of the work

and the abilities of the worker .

Most of the work that most people

have to do is not in itself interesting ,

but even such work has certain great advantages . 

To begin with ,it fills a good many hours

of the day without the need of deciding

what one shall do .Most people  ,

 when they are left free to fill     

their own time according to their own choice ,

 are at a loss to think of anything

sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing .

Accordingly the more intelligent rich men

 work nearly as hard as if they were poor .