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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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Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. – E.V. Lucas

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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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Hunger is not the worst feature of unemployment; idleness is. – William E. Barrett

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Nobody can think straight who does not work. Idleness warps the mind. – Henry Ford

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