#idle

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. ↗

— Robert Burton

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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The idle always have a mind to do something. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.' ↗

— Harlan Coben

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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. ↗

— Isaac Watts

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I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

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As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven. ↗

— Aulus Persius Flaccus

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