"It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease;……" — Jane Austen

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all… - Jane Austen
"It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine."

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