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> [“In the Middle Ages, the sin of sloth had two forms,” he said. “One was paralysis, the inability to do anything—what we would see as lazy. But the other side was something called acedia—running about frantically. The sense that, ‘There’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brigid-schulte/in-the-middle-ages-the-sin-of-sloth-had-two-forms-he-said-one-was/)

[Brigid Schulte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brigid-schulte/)

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