#idleness

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace. ↗

— Hesiod

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Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame. ↗

— Hesiod

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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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