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Quote by Robert Burton
Idleness is an appendix to nobility. - Robert Burton

Idleness is an appendix to nobility. – 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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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. – Jeremy Collier

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

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

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We have produced a world of contented bodies and discontented minds. – Adam Clayton Powell, Keep the Faith, Baby!, 1967

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