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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. - Joan Klempner

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep. - Dale Carnegie

Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. - Thomas Jefferson

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. - Soren Kierkegaard

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. - Mahatma Gandhi

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. - Jules Renard

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell

Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil. - Hippocrates, Decorum

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977

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