#idle

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation; he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock. ↗

— William Emerson

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. ↗

— Barbara Johnson

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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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