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XV
GIVE UP IDLENESS



Give up laziness.
Pythagorus forbade sitting on the food cupboards. Go forth, therefore,
and put your hands to work
so that tomorrow you may have food.



 

 

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, ed. and trans., Selected Writings of Christine de Pisan

 

Peggy Knapp, Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's