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I dont think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . .

I dont think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. – Agatha Christie

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do. – Agatha Christie

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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. – Agatha Christie

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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Lord Chesterfield

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The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4 – Bible

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