How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - Arnold Bennett - 書籍 -  - 9798668462636 - 2020年10月13日
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How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

Book Excerpt: ...n the day. If we further analyse our vague, uneasy aspiration, we shall, I think, see that it springs from a fixed idea that we ought to do something in addition to those things which we are loyally and morally obliged to do. We are obliged, by various codes written and unwritten, to maintain ourselves and our families (if any) in health and comfort, to pay our debts, to save, to increase our prosperity by increasing our efficiency. A task sufficiently difficult! A task which very few of us achieve! A task often beyond our skill! yet, if we succeed in it, as we sometimes do, we are not satisfied; the skeleton is still with us. And even when we realise tat the task is beyond our skill, that our powers cannot cope with it, we feel that we should be less discontented if we gave to our powers, already overtaxed, something still further to do. And such is, indeed, the fact. The wish to accomplish something outside their formal programme is common to all men who in the course of evolution have...

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リリース済み 2020年10月13日
ISBN13 9798668462636
ページ数 32
寸法 152 × 229 × 2 mm   ·   58 g
言語 英語  

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