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• The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.
• Toil does not come to help the idle.
• All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
• A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
  -- Haliburto...
• Kirk: "How does he know that?" Aelborne: "Oh, our friend Trefayne is really quite intuitive.
  You can rest assured that what he says is absolutely correct....
• The law neither does nor requires idle acts.
• A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. -- Paul Simo
• It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
  Jerome K. Jerome ['Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow', 1886]...
• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...