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Indolence
Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
Abu Bakr,
Saudi Arabian
Statesman
#Life
#World
#Indolence
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
John Mason Brown,
American
Critic
#Action
#Man
#Opinion
#Trials
#Indolence
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Lord Chesterfield,
British
Statesman
#May
#Man
#Suicide
#Indolence
Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
Luc de Clapier,
French
Novelist
#Mind
#Sleep
#Indolence
Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton,
Canadian
Author
#Contentment
#Indolence