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Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.
Approximate author period: c. 1608 AD · renaissance
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- Robert Burton
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- Approximate author period: c. 1608 AD · renaissance
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