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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21621, 16 April 1932, Page 14

ARE YOU INDOLENT? “To speak of indolence as if it were a vice is just a great big verbal slander,” Harold was reading from a book. We could hear a smile of satisfaction in his voice. He read on: “Indolence is a virtue. It comes from two Latin words which mean freedom from anxiety or grief. There are times and seasons when it is even a pious and blessed state of mind. Not to be in a hurry; not to be ambitious, or jealous, or resentful; not to feel envious of anybody. . , . That suits me down to the ground,” said Harold. “To sit and dream . . . and smoke . . . and dream . . ..” We look at him sprawled contentedly in his chair, eyes closed, puffing at his pipe of Edgeworth, and we feel envious. Helping ourselves to some tobacco from his tin, we settle down to Edgeworth—and indolence!—Advfc-