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owing passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
A should be placed among the causes of happiness or unhappiness, may pernaps ve
egarded as a doubtful question. There is certainly much work which is exceedingly irksome, and
an excess of work is always very painful. However, work is not to most people more painful than
idleness. There are in work all grades, from mere relief of tedium up to the profoundest delights.
according to the nature of the work and the abilities of the worker. Most of the work that most
people have to do is not in itself interesting, but even such work has certain great advantages.
lo begin with, it fills a good many hours of the day without the need of deciding what one shall
do. Most people, when they are left free to fill their own time according to their own choice are
at a loss to think of anything sufficiently pleasant to be worth doing. And whatever they decide on,
they are troubled by the feeling that something else would have been more pleasant. To be able
to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilisation and at present very few people have
reached this level. Moreover, the exercise of choice is in itself tiresome. Except to people with
unusual initiative it is positively agreeable to be told what to do at each hour of the day, provided
the orders are not too unpleasant. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price
of their freedom from drudgery. At times they may find relief by hun ing big game in Africa or by
flying round the world, but the number of such sensations is limited, especially after youth is past.
Accordingly, the more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor.
3. Work, therefore is desirable, first and foremost as a prevention of boredom, for the boredom that
a man feels when he is doing something out of compulsion; though uninteresting work is as boring
as having nothing to do. With this advantage of work, another is associated, namely that it makes
holidays much more delicious when they come. Provided a man does not have to work so hard
as to impair his vigour, he is likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could
possibly find.
4. The second advantage of most paid work and some of unpaid work is that it gives chances of
success and opportunities for ambition. In most work, success is measured by income and while our
lintin minty mntinues, this is inevitable. However dull work may be, it becomes bearable, it
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b)write summary
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