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Tag Tag Idleness
Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly.”

Benjamin Franklin · The Way to Wealth, 1758 · Primary source

“You’re an expatriate. You’ve lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafés”

Ernest Hemingway · The Sun Also Rises, 1926 · Primary source

“My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.”

Søren Kierkegaard · Either/Or, 1843 · Primary source

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