In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol when Scrooge tells the ghost of his partner Marley "... you were always a good man of business..." the response is:

"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing his hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!"

Sunday, May 30, 1999 at 08:02:40 (EDT) = 1999-05-30

TopicLiterature - TopicLife -TopicFaith - TopicSociety - TopicPhilosophy

(correlates: OceansOfNotions, Mind-Body Connection, RazorBladeEconomics, ...)