If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. ✨ Q…

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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. ✨ Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 27 Oct. 1779)
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