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A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends. (Bierce Ambrose)
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. (Bierce Ambrose)
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. (Bierce Ambrose)
The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. (Bierce Ambrose)
You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. (Bierce Ambrose)
Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience. (Bierce Ambrose)
A loafer always has the correct time. (Bierce Ambrose)
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. (Bierce Ambrose)
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. (Bierce Ambrose)
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service. (Bierce Ambrose)
The only menace is inertia. (Bierce Ambrose)
By doing nothing we learn to do ill. (Bierce Ambrose)
Sloth is the key to poverty. (Bierce Ambrose)
A young man idle, an old man needy. (Bierce Ambrose)
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all. (Bierce Ambrose)
The lazier a man is, the more he plans to do tomorrow. (Bierce Ambrose)
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. (Bierce Ambrose)
We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is easier, but requires greater maintenance. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work. (Bierce Ambrose)
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