digging and filling holes

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The spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionalble liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England to live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once. "What!" exclaim a million Irishmen starting up from the shanties in the land, "is not this railroad which we have built a good thing?" Yes, i answer comparitivley good, that is, you might have done worse; but i wish, as you are brothers of mine, that you could have spent your time better than digging in this dirt. Henry David Thoreau - Walden