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" There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 326
by James Boswell - 1823
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Doctor Johnson: A Play

Alfred Edward Newton - Authors - 1923 - 170 pages
...His time is, I suppose, largely spent in making money. Dr. JOHNSON. It is, sir, and there are indeed few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in making money. Mr. BOSWELL. He might devote himself to literature. Dr. JOHNSON. Dr. JOHNSON. For his...
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Johnson the Essayist, His Opinions on Men, Morals and Manners: A Study

Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...not attack riches and the pursuit of riches as bad in themselves. " There are few ways," he said, " in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." 3 He would probably have agreed * with Addison tnlrf it was perilous for a trader to break away from...
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Life and I: An Autobiography of Humanity

Gamaliel Bradford - Life - 1928 - 336 pages
...importance everywhere. The saints and sages quarrel with it and scourge it. To be sure, Dr. Johnson said, 'There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.' 4 But in general the saints and sages do not agree with this view. They point out the insidious, corrupting...
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The Hypochondriack: Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated ..., Volume 2

James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 364 pages
...Hyp. 57. Cf. Life of ]., 2. 369: Mr. Strahan put Johnson in mind of a remark which he had made to himj "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money." See also Johnson's comment on Garrick (ibid., 3. 8 1 ) : "I am of opinion, the reputation of avarice...
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A Treasury of English Aphorisms

Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...and the company below your ambition Emerson^ J^ X, 51. MONEY MONEY makes a man laugh. Selden, 100. THERE are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. Dr. Johnson, B, II, 323. GENERALLY Money lies nearest them that are nearest their Graves. Wm. Penn,...
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Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality

Richard Harvey Brown - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1987 - 268 pages
...avarice became acumen; sloth, leisure; and pride, ambition: so much so that Samuel Johnson could say. "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. A religious vocabulary of passions had been replaced by a commercial vocabulary of interests. A similar...
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Money and the Morality of Exchange

Jonathan P. Parry - Business & Economics - 1989 - 290 pages
...conducting affairs than 'passions' of a more bellicose nature. With Dr Johnson's pronouncement that 'there are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money', it becomes a positively harmless pastime. Indeed, as the most dogged and persistent of passions, it...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...is like muck, not good except it be spread. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Men who make money rarely saunter; men...
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If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

Deirdre N. McCloskey - Business & Economics - 1990 - 208 pages
...greed. Again: The morality of the almighty dollar is not the worst of moralities. Dr. Johnson said, "There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently...of this, [said Strahan] the juster it will appear" (Boswell 1949 [1791], 532; 27 March 1775). So it has appeared in the long conversation after 1775....
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Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy

C. Fred Alford - Drama - 1992 - 236 pages
...pure and beneficent when pursued as an economic interest? Or, as Dr. Johnson puts it, are "there . . . few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money"?32 In fact, commerce, money-making, and acquisitiveness may lead to hell on earth, especially...
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