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laziness quotes

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“Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
“the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“There's something happening every day, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
“Don’t you dare take the lazy way. It’s too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don’t let me catch you doing it! Now—look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do it—not your mother.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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