There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the...

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson

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English poet, biographer, essayist, lexicographer

September 18th, 1709 - December 13th, 1784