“Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.”
J. Maarten Troost (1969) American writer
Source: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
“I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.”
Preface, p. viii.
The World We Want (2000)
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