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• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. — Henry Adams
• Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
• Oh yes, there's lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets.… — Anthony Bourdain
• Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright. — Benjamin Franklin
• Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. — Mignon McLaughlin
• The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable. — Henry David Thoreau
• The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly
• Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. — William Shakespeare
• Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only… — Samuel Johnson
• The scent of Sloth tempts a smug man. — James Boswell
• Flee laziness which while it produces an immediate delight, ends in the sorrow of repentance. And know that nature without exercise is… — Pietro Aretino

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