There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that…

Samuel Johnson
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There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler, p.291
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There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler, p.291

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