“None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Source: Ender's Game
“6265.
Happy’s the wooing,
That’s not long a doing.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1734).
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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