Fashion and Dissipation

Who are half so much the slaves of the world as the gay and the dissipated? Those who work for time, have at least their hours of rest; those who labour for subsistence, are at liberty when subsistence is procured; but those who toil to please the vain and the idle, undertake a task which can never be finished, however scrupulously all private peace and all internal comfort may be sacrificed in reality to the folly of saving appearances.—Cecilia.