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Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, pt. 1, sct. 2, memb. 2, subsct. 6, 1621.
-- Robert Burton, (Feb 8 1577-1640), English scholar, writer, clergyman; His Anatomy of Melancholy was considered a masterpiece of style and valuable index to philosophers of the time.

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