"How sweet and sacred idleness is!" — Walter Savage Landor
"How sweet and sacred idleness is!"
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Walter Savage Landor
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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