[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.
Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.740, Wordsworth Editions
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[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.