Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste. - Sylvia Townsend Warner - Quotesmemo.com

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

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To think of losing is to lose already.

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It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

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The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

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Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

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