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"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
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"Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
"Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value."
"It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness."
"Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish."
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"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."
"Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another."
"A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters."
"Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough."
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