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Idleness is an appendix to nobility. - Robert Burton

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. – Robert Burton

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Worldly wealth is the Devils bait and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun. – Robert Burton

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Happiness
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Robert Burton
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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

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Wine
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Robert Burton
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He that is doing nothing is seldom in need of helpers. – Proverb

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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. – Charlie McCarthy

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Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy. – Proverb

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He also who is slack in his work is brother to him who destroys. Proverbs 18:9 – Bible

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