BOSWELL: "We grow weary when idle." JOHNSON: "That is, sir, because others being busy, we want company; but if we were idle, there would be no growing weary; we should all entertain one another." Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of LESE-respectability, to enter on … Continue reading An Apology for Idlers — Robert Louis Stevenson
