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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

Life Wife Struggle Ambition

Indulged habits of dependence create habits of indolence, and indolence opens the portal to petty errors, to many degrading habits, and to vice and crime with their attendant train of miseries.

Crime Create Train Petty

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Man Look Suicide Survive

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.

Life World Manifest Loan

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

Bernard Williams

Classy Like Laziness Word Seem

Eating constitutes the greatest obstacle to self-control; it gives rise to indolence.

Eating Rise Self-Control Greatest

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

You Happy Feelings Your

Indolence, of course, is an absolutely crucial part of the creative process: you do not find poets sitting in rows in cavernous word factories, staring at screens. They are rather to be found lolling on the sofa or strolling through the groves, nursing their melancholic temperaments and losing themselves in extended reveries.

You Losing Creative Sitting

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

Life Death Day Moment

Indolence is the sleep of the mind.

Luc de Clapiers

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Contentment After Simply Refined

Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.

Angry Rich Army Lifestyle

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

John Mason Brown

Man Action Opinion Trials

I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.

Best My Own Party Own

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