It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ea…

Samuel Johnson
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler, p.11
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