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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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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. – Henry Ford

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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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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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

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