"Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a……" — Charles Dickens

"Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy."

— Charles Dickens

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Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. — Aldous Huxley
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