Adam Farrer
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Cold Fish Soup
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Broken Biscuits: And Other Male Failures
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Test Signal
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“I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organised diminution of work.”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays


































