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A quotation from Samuel Johnson

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72

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Johnson, Samuel - Essay (1759-09-01), The Idler, No. 72 | WIST Quotations

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

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रञ्जित (Ranjit Mathew)Apr 11

“The Importance Of Being Idle”, The American Scholar (https://theamericanscholar.org/the-importance-of-being-idle/).

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The Importance of Being Idle - The American Scholar

What Paul Lafargue taught us about work

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WIST QuotationsMar 20

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to place.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48

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Johnson, Samuel - Essay (1759-03-17), The Idler, No. 48 | WIST Quotations

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps in perpetual agitation and hurries him from place to…

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WIST QuotationsMar 19

A quotation from Josh Billings

Lazyness iz a good deal like money, — the more a man haz ov it the more he seems tew want.
 
[Laziness is a good deal like money — the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-08 (1871 ed.)

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Billings, Josh - Josh Billings' Farmer's Allminax, 1871-08 (1871 ed.) | WIST Quotations

Lazyness iz a good deal like money, -- the more a man haz ov it the more he seems tew want. [Laziness is a good deal like money -- the more a man has of it, the more he seems to want.]

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Quick QuotesMar 18

“I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.”
― David Graeber

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WIST QuotationsFeb 26

A quotation from Cicero

For men ought not to be so elated by the dignity of the affairs which they have undertaken to manage, as to have no regard to their ease; nor ought they to dwell with fondness on any sort of ease which is inconsistent with dignity.
 
[Neque enim rerum gerendarum dignitate homines ecferri ita convenit ut otio non prospiciant, neque ullum amplexari otium quod abhorreat a dignitate.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 45 / sec. 98 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)]

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius - Pro Sestio [For Publius Sestius], ch. 45 / sec. 98 (56-02 BC) [tr. Yonge (1891)] | WIST Quotations

For men ought not to be so elated by the dignity of the affairs which they have undertaken to manage, as to have no regard to their ease; nor ought they to dwell with fondness on any sort of ease which is inconsistent with dignity. [Neque enim rerum gerendarum dignitate…

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WIST QuotationsFeb 20

A quotation from Samuel Johnson

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1758-08-05), The Idler, No. 17

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Johnson, Samuel - Essay (1758-08-05), The Idler, No. 17 | WIST Quotations

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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WIST QuotationsFeb 13

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to look on and enjoy in the meanwhile, savours a little of bravado and gasconade. And yet this should not be. Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1877-07), “An Apology for Idlers,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36

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Stevenson, Robert Louis - Essay (1877-07), "An Apology for Idlers," Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 36 | WIST Quotations

Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough, and like to…

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WIST QuotationsFeb 12

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are all the more bound to carry on some kind of non-remunerative work in science, in letters, in art, in exploration, in historical research-work of the type we most need in this country, the successful carrying out of which reflects most honor upon the nation.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, Chicago

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Roosevelt, Theodore - Speech (1899-04-10), "The Strenuous Life," Hamilton Club, Chicago | WIST Quotations

If you are rich and are worth your salt, you will teach your sons that though they may have leisure, it is not to be spent in idleness; for wisely used leisure merely means that those who possess it, being free from the necessity of working for their livelihood, are…

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A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1881), “Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2”

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Essay (1881), "Virginibus Puerisque, Part 2" - Stevenson, Robert Louis | WIST Quotations

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have…

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