_They_ don't shoulder the work of the world: they shoulder the world and leave the work to be done by somebody else.

Three days' stories and political discussion with them have made me wonder why the devil I've been so industrious all my life.

They know more than I know; they are richer than I am; they have been about the world more than I have; they are far more influential than I am; and yet one of them asked me to-day if George Washington was a born American! I said to him, "Where the devil do you suppose he came from--Hades ?" And he laughed at himself as heartily as the rest of us laughed at him, and didn't care a hang! If that's British, I've a mind to become British; and, the point is, you must, too.

Work is a curse.

There was some truth in that old doctrine.