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There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

Samuel Johnson
Business, Sloth, Laziness
Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.291
There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.