Paying :(

Hey everybody, sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been busy with school and such. While I was doing school the other day I came across this paragraph from the story of Moby Dick and I thought it was funny (although slightly irreverent) so I thought I would share it with you.

Ishmael is giving his reasons why he is going to sea as a sailor instead of a passenger.

" Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a point of paying me for my trouble, whereas they never pay passengers a single penny that I ever heard of. On the contrary, passengers themselves must pay. And there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable infliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, -what will compare with it? The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to be the root of all earthly ills, and that on no account can a monied man enter heaven. Ah! how cheerfully we consign ourselves to perdition!"