Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness…

Thomas Carlyle
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1857). Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851), p.38
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. ✨ Thomas Carlyle (1857). Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851), p.38

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