The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us

“Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they made a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passenger a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, - what will compare with it?
The urban activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! How cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!”In Moby-Dick by Herman Melville



This is a quotation of my holiday’s reading.
Of course I’m not a sailor, I wish I was.
For now I will continue to cheerfully consign myself to perdition,



Or breaking stone, or gaze through the day’s illusion