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

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The hardest work is to go idle. – Yiddish Proverb

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The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it. – John Lubbock

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