• It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

    William Shenstone: It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
    William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.151