It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epo…

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound laziness and fatigue; and the fact is that the real laziness is the cause of the apparent bustle. ✨ Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton, p.93, Simon and Schuster
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