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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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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. – Victor Hugo

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo

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

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb

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Idleness is certainly the Cause, and Busyness the never-failing Cure of Melancholy. – Author unknown, circa mid-1700s, possibly Charles Palmer

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