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Letter "L" » listless
«I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction»
Author: John Steinbeck
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bored,
cynicism,
destroyers,
listless,
named,
plenty,
rebellion,
self-satisfaction,
slothful,
submerged,
The Destroyers
«Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait / not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion.»
«I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
deliberate,
deliberates,
Deliberating,
lazier,
laziest,
listless,
quieter,
slower,
Too lazy