Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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I don't like laziness or cutting corners.
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Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
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Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden.
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I never work just to work. It's some combination of laziness and self-respect.
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Luck is always the last refuge of laziness and incompetence.
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Minds ripen at very different ages.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured.
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Laziness is the one common deficiency in mankind that blocks the establishment of a perfect world in which everyone leads a happy life.
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We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.
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Bullying happens at all ages and levels.
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Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
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To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.
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I guess laziness is a universal feeling that everyone in this world feels sometimes.
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If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
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My proposal that Fed governors should signal their commitment to public service by wearing Hawaiian shirts and Bermuda shorts has so far gone unheeded.
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Nothing ages like laziness.
