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The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken

The real source of almost all our crimes, if the trouble is taken to trace them to a common origin, will be found to be in idleness. – Walter Gaston Shotwell

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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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