Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan (1873–1952) British judge
Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 39
“The worst idleness is that of the heart. Think of the condition and prospects of a voiceless, thankless, prayerless heart.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 346.
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