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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

There is nothing shameful about being efficient.

Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace.

There is no shame like poor shame. It can make you warm and charming, bitter and resentful, all at once.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.