Profit ( page 288 ).
Questions.
1. What are returns or receipts? 2. What is profit in the commercial sense? What in the intellectual and moral sense? 3. What is utility? 4. What does advantage originally signify? Does it now necessarily imply having or gaining superiority to another person, or securing anything at another's expense? 5. What is gain? benefit? emolument? 6. To what does expediency especially refer?
Examples.
Silence has many ——s.
No man can read with —— that which he can not learn to read with pleasure.
Godliness with contentment is great ——.