“ idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work is thieving. ”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (1862). copy citation
Author | Victor Hugo |
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Source | Les Misérables |
Topic | idleness work |
Date | 1862 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood in 1887 |
Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/135/135-h/135-h.htm |
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“You will enter young, rosy, fresh, with brilliant eyes, and all your white teeth, and your handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of an idle man. It is not comfortable to become a rascal. It is less disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said to you.”
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