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We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.

Bernard de Mandeville
Lazy, Laziness, Inferiors
"The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark V, p. 267, 1732.
We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.