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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw
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He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.

Dr. Thomas Fuller
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It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Benjamin Franklin
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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Walter Bagehot
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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson
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I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Jean Genet
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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Arthur Rimbaud
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Obviously there will have to be operating cost dollars provided, because we wouldn't build them to see them sit idle.

Iris Evans
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The idle mind knows not what it wants.

Ennius
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How these curiosities would be quite forgot, did not such idle fellows as I am put them down.

John Aubrey
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Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

James Harvey Robinson
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Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Barbara Johnson
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A has done as well as he could.

William Graham Sumner
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You want to be sure the money isn't idle.

Diane Rolfsmeyer
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A vain, idle and sinful game at which there was much of the language of the accursed going on.

James Hogg
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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.

Homer
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Telephones! The curse of idle women.

Axel Munthe
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Absolutely groundless, idle inventions.

Sergei Yastrzhembsky
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In a given location, on any given day, there could be five cars idle on the lot to 15 cars idle on the lot.

Kent Seavey
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It could serve small clients around that area by using that extra capacity. In this way, idle equipment won't be wasted.

Xu Chuanhai
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For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts
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