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

~ A nation rushing hastily too and fro, busily employed in idleness. ~

~ 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

~ Evil thoughts often come from idleness. ~

Gaelic Proverb

~ I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely. ~

Sherlock Holmes

~ Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ~

Jean Paul

~ Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ~

Jerome K. Jerome

~ Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy. ~

Samuel Johnson

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

Soren Kierkegaard

~ The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books ~

Robertson Davies

~ Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others ~

Samuel Butler

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