There is probably nothing more essential to permanent business success than sticktoitiveness, or it might be expressed in the word continuity. It requires time to fit oneself for service.

A slaves' work was as cumbersome as toiling on the fields, or in the mines.

Alternatively, if I wasn't worried about anything at work I would sit in the lounge room or at the dinner table and wonder what my partner was thinking, sure that she had the dirts with me over some work issue, just because she was a bit quiet.

Of the interfaith couples I spoke to, far fewer are choosing Christianity instead of Judaism as the primary religion for their homes and families.