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An idler?s manifesto, with contributions from Aristotle, Thoreau, Twain, Wilde, Pynchon, Thurber, and many more.

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From: Amazon Posted: Sep 14, 2005 Type: User Review A Great Book We Can All Learn From

The Importance of Being Idle has the type of wisdom our generation can learn from. And they have. Noel Gallagher penned a song by the same name that went #1 in the U.K. during August of 2005, showing that not only are there a lot of Oasis fans,...
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From: Amazon Posted: May 10, 2002 Type: User Review The devil makes work...

While Mr Robins is undoubtedly proud of his high intellect, I sadly, am unimpressed. Idleness is fine and dandy if you are genuine cad, like Aristotle, Wilde and Twain, but for the rest of us philistines it is a luxury that can never truly be...
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From: Amazon Posted: Mar 04, 2002 Type: User Review A Gem

Full of quotes by people like Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell, Charles Dickens and Samuel Johnson (who particularly liked to loaf, it seems), this book will eliminate any guilt about being lazy or wasting time, actually revealing idleness as the...
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