Resolution/business

Famous quotes containing the words resolution and/or business:

“[A]s I am pretty well acquainted by great Opportunities with the Nature of Man, and know of a Truth, that all Men fight against their Will, the Danger vanishes, and Resolution rises upon this Subject. For this Reason I shall talk very freely on a Custom which all Men wish exploded, tho’ no Man has Courage enough to resist it.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)

“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
—Augustine Birrell (1850–1933)