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en We grow old more through indolence, than through age
  Christina of Sweden

en It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.
  Jane Austen

en Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

en A philosopher is there to disturb the indolence of the mind
  John Stuart Mill

en Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
  Thomas C. Haliburton

en Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
  Thomas C. Haliburton

en I like the word 'indolence'. His pe𝑥y attitude towards challenges made him a source of strength and inspiration. It makes my laziness seem classy.

en Indolence is a delightful but distressing state, we must be doing something to be happy.
  Mahatma Gandhi

en It's called a growth package. Well, all it's going to grow is the income inequality in this country. It's going to grow the gap between the rich and everyone else, it's going to grow tax unfairness. The rich will pay less and everyone else in America will eventually pay more. It's going to grow federal deficits, and our national debt. And it's going to grow the size of the financial disaster that lies ahead of this country.

en The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

en 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

en Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent
  Platon

en Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence
  Thomas Jefferson

en What has been the fruit of religion? Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
  James Madison

en It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.
  W. H. Auden


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