"Busyness" Quotes from Famous Books
... I found that B—— was in no hurry and we talked more intimately than in several years. I discovered soon that his hard busyness was no more than a veneer and that his freer self still lived, but in confinement. At least he felt the great lack in his life, which had been given too much to the piling up of things, to the sustaining of position—getting and ... — Chimney-Pot Papers • Charles S. Brooks |