Sloth: a state in which you envy those who are busy, but despise what they’re busy at. Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It’s the sin of my middle age, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960CDN
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