"Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery."

-- Robert A. Burton

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“Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!”
“What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?”

Source : Colleen McCullough (2013). “The Thorn Birds”, p.365, Head of Zeus
“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”

Source : William Wilberforce (1797). “A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity”, p.424
“It's hard to not make a mistake at Darlington.”
“For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.”
“I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.”
“Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!”
“Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.”

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