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• O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need… — John L. Bates
• No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time… — Washington Irving
• Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical… — Remy de Gourmont
• Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to… — Unknown Author
• Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts… — John F. Kennedy
• Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,… — Jean-Paul Marat
• In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On… — Meher Baba
• The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and… — Slobodan Milosević
• Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The… — Plato
• Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles. — Horace Greeley
• Idlers do not make history: they suffer it! — Peter Kropotkin
• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy… — William Butler Yeats

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