Explanation: And think I have not fulfilled the business of the day when I do not thus employ the one in labor and exercise as well as the other in study and contemplation.
Answer: These remarkable and reliable lines have been chosen from the famous essay “Lanour and Exercise' by Joseph Addison one of the prominent essayists of English literature. Here the writer in a very wise manner suggests what he himself does every day and mildly suggests to the readers that they should follow his advice.
The human body is the combination of some glands and veins. Without proper exercise, these glands or veins will be weak day by day and consequently, the body will break down. So the people instead of wasting away their time conversing for nothing which is like fighting with one's own shadow, should take physical exercise and do some essential labor. The writer thinks personally if he does not do physical labor and studying and contemplating mental labor his day's business is not fulfilled.
Actually, here Addison satirizes the people who pass away their valuable days without doing any particular labor and only gossiping nonsense. He here mildly advises the people to be industrious. These lines are colored with a didactic note.
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