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On the joys of shopkeeping
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Published 2007
Robert Browning, at an address not far removed from our own, wrote:
Because a man has shop to mind
In time and place, since flesh must live,
Needs spirit lack all life behind,
All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive?
All loves except what trade can give?
I want to know a butcher paints,
A baker rhymes for his pursuit,
Candlestick-maker much acquaints
His soul with song, or, haply mute,
Blows out his brains upon the flute.
Britain is meant to be a nation of shopkeepers: there is nothing quite like it for focussing, strengthening the character and generally engaging with the world. Everyone should be a shopkeeper for a day.
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