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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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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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

— Andrew Young

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Nostalgia often leads to idle speculation. ↗

— Paul Getty

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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