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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Samuel Johnson
Advice, Solitude, Sloth
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (letter to Boswell, 27 Oct. 1779)
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.