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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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Laziness
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The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4 – Bible

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Laziness

It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. – Proverb

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Laziness

Efficiency is intelligent laziness. – David Dunham

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Laziness

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Lord Chesterfield

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Laziness

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Im a very professional man. Im not out for the experience of adventure. – Werner Herzog

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You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go! – Oliver Cromwell

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Parliament

Docs? Oh, you mean the stuff you wipe up coffee with? – Author Unknown

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Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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