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«Industry has operated against the artisan in favor of the idler, and also in favor of capital and against labor. Any mechanical invention whatsoever has been more harmful to humanity than a century of war.»
«For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very center of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.»
«Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.»
«Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.»
«Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex»
«The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.»
«Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: idler, idlers
«Be not solitary, be not idle. / Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: idler, idlers
«How various his employments, whom the world / Calls idle; and who justly, in return, / Esteems that busy world an idler too!»
«An idler is a watch that wants both hands, As useless if it goes as if it stands»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: idler, idlers

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