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Idleness Quotes
"To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself"
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Samuel Johnson
"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues"
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Franz Kafka
"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time"
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John Lubbock
"Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable"
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Anton Chekhov