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So America Inc can be slothful but highly profitable.

“We may be slothful,” he said, “but we don’t mess around with our data and facts.”

Not quite," she answered, returning to it, and reading: "'Those whom you have hitherto served have too long made a mockery of sacred things, but their cup is full and the business of seeing that they drink it lieth with me, who am not wont to be slothful in these matters.

He forbids not laying up in the Summer against the Wants of Winter; nor doth he teach us to be slothful in that which properly relates to our being in this World; but in this Prohibition he puts in yourselves, Lay not up for yourselves Treasures here on Earth.

Help us to resist its desire to eat, to drink, to sleep overmuch, to be idle, to be slothful.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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