Business is busyness, or the work ethic.

From: Social Research | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Welsh, Alexander | Copyright information

"NOWHER SO BISY A MAN AS HE THER NAS," WE READ OF ONE OF CHAUCER'S pilgrims; "And yet he semed bisier than he was." And yet? The logic of these lines seems more than a little mischievous. Nowhere could there be found a man as busy as this, and yet this man seemed busier than he was. If both of these statements are strictly true, most men are not as busy as they seem, and diligence is largely a matter of show.

This particular pilgrim is the serjeant of the law, as introdu...

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