“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
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“I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous, and that what needs to be preached in modern industrial countries is quite different from what always has been preached.”
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
― In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
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