ABSTRACT

Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (1765) 16 Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained

by perpetual neglect of many other things. R.L.Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque (1881)

17 People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.