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To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual. (Oscar Wilde)[][]
Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves. (Ovid)[][]
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. (Samuel Johnson)[][]
That destructive siren, sloth, is ever to be avoided. (Horace)[][]
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair. (Charles C. Colton)[][]
Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored. (Lord Byron)[][]
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. (Buddha)[][]
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