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Letter "I" » idle
«Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.»
Author: Charles Kingsley
(Clergyman, Teacher, Writer)
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«I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.»
«All universal moral principles are idle fancies.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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«As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«An idle mind is the devil's workshop»
«A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.»
«Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor.»
«Arguments derived from probabilities are idle»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Arguments
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arguments, derived, idle, in all probability, probabilities
«A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.»
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