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Quote by Samuel Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefo

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. – Samuel Johnson

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. – Samuel Johnson

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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. – Samuel Johnson

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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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There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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

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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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