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“in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair”

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present, Book III, ch. XI (Labour) (Project Gutenberg #26159)

Carlyle sets work against despair as the remedy for both rich and poor.

Citation: "in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair" — Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book III, ch. XI (Labour) (Project Gutenberg #26159). (id past-and-present-q10)

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