Friday, January 10, 2020
Useful Employments
Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 145 (Tuesday, August 6, 1751):
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It is allowed that vocations and employments of least dignity are of the most apparent use; that the meanest artizan or manufacturer contributes more to the accommodation of life, than the profound scholar and argumentative theorist; and that the publick would suffer less present inconvenience from the banishment of philosophers than from the extinction of any common trade.
