"What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?"
— Idleness

January 1, 1970

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John Heywood, "Idleness" (circa 1576), as reproduced in Samuel Orchart Beeton and William Michael Rossetti, Encyclopaedia of English and American Poetry, Vol. 1 (1873), No. 400.