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about Idleness It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness. George Borrow Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness - its opposite - never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes. Miguel de Cervantes Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. Victor Hugo Idleness is an appendix to nobility. Robert Burton Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. Soren Kierkegaard A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson | |