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There is a working class - strong and happy - among both rich and

There is a working class – strong and happy – among both rich and poor: there is an idle class – weak, wicked, and miserable – among both rich and poor. – John Ruskin

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Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs. – John Ruskin

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Bread of flour is good; but there is bread, sweet as honey, if we would eat it, in a good book. – John Ruskin

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Idleness is the beginning of all vices. – Proverb

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

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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. – Alexander Pope, Epilogue to the Satires, 1738

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I have a wonderful respect for old people. – Craig Kilborn

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