There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel,…

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

James Russell Lowell

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What turned up: Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, James Russell Lowell entry; Among my Books. First Series. New England Two Centuries ago.; Wording and named source checked in Bartlett’s published reference; the original work is identified by
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