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Sloth Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.
- It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
- There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
- If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
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