Edward Yardley, Once a Week (1862)
“ Lawyers ruin all that come into their clutches, and enrich themselves. Doctors physic all they can except themselves, and convey people very expeditiously out of the world, though they themselves are rather long-lived. Merchants, to benefit themselves, cheat their neighbours. Soldiers murder—but, as they also run the risk of being murdered, perhaps theirs is the honestest vocation of all, except that of husbandmen, who do good and no harm." "We will then become soldiers," rejoined Lulu; "and when we are tired of that occupation we will till the ground." "A good choice," said Ahmed. ”
