One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and inv…

Victor Hugo
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. ✨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misérables, Viking Pr
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. ✨ Victor Hugo (1980). Les misérables, Viking Pr

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