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title: "3 Live Idle Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Live Idle quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Live Idle sayings and thoughts."
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> [Have we not all, amid life's petty strife, Some pure ideal of a noble life That once seemed possible? Did we not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adelaide-anne-procter/have-we-not-all-amid-life-s-petty-strife-some-pure-ideal-of-a-noble-2/)

[Adelaide Anne Procter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adelaide-anne-procter/)

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> [Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/victor-hugo/idleness-pleasure-what-abysses-to-do-nothing-is-a-dreary-course-to/)

[Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/victor-hugo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f62/victor-hugo-32_abyss_idleness-pleasure-what-abysses-to-do-not_1666553.jpg)

> [I live an idle burden to the ground.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/i-live-an-idle-burden-to-the-ground/)

[Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39d/homer-357_burden_i-live-an-idle-burden-to-the-ground-2532_2532462.png)

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