#idleness

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Idleness is an appendix to nobility. ↗

— Robert Burton

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It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt. ↗

— William J. Clinton

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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. ↗

— Lord Melbourne

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Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind. ↗

— Johann G. Seume

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I wonder at the idleness of tears. ↗

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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