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From the founding editor of The Idler , the celebrated magazine about the freedom and fine art of doing nothing, comes not simply a book, but an antidote to our work-obsessed culture. In How to Be Idle , Tom Hodgkinson presents his learned yet whimsical argument for a new universal standard... read more
First Sentence
I wonder if that hard-working American rationalist and agent of industry Benjamin Franklin knew how much misery he would cause in the world when, back in 1757, high on puritanical zeal, he popularized and promoted the trite and patently untrue aphorism "early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise"?
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- Tom Hodgkinson (Author)
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