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Idleness is certainly the Cause, and Busyness the never-failing Cu

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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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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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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The hour of idleness is the hour of temptation. – Proverb

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