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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
Idleness
Sir Richard Steele

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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Idleness
William Cowper

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The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
Idleness
Nathaniel Howe

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To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Idleness
Henry David Thoreau

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Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.
Idleness
Benjamin Franklin

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Idleness
Virginia Woolf

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun