Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.

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More, Hannah. Christian Morals. Vol. 2, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.