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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Name: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
Author: Bertrand Russell

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays is a 1935 collection of essays by the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

“In the past, there was a small leisure class and a larger working class. The leisure class enjoyed advantages for which there was no basis in social justice; this necessarily made it oppressive, limited its sympathies, and caused it to invent theories by which to justify its privileges.”

Bertrand Russell book In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnlbMP_vBmgC&pg=PA13

“All serious innovation is only rendered possible by some accident
enabling unpopular persons to survive.”

Bertrand Russell book In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

Source: In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays

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