This slight is said to have created in his mind such an aversion to knitting by hand, that he formed the determination to invent a machine that should supersede it and render it a Gainless employment.
"Self Help"
Samuel Smiles
What is not countenanced among civilised men is to shift out of allegiance to any given nationality or dynasty without shifting into the like complication of Gainless obligations somewhere else.
"An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation"
Thorstein Veblen