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Quote by Victor Hugo
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a vi

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor – Victor Hugo

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo

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We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo

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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. – St. Jerome

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The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation. – Proverb

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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. – William E. Barrett

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The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. – Walter Gaston Shotwell

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