“It is not industry, but idleness, that is degrading.”
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1929), p. 68.
1920s
“No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.”
Source: Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (1859), Ch. I : Self-Help — National and Individual
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