Oh, how pitiless are idle people!
Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Canal Boat” (1835)Ah! combien les désœuvrés sont sans pitié.
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Hawthorne has been describing how a poor classicist from Virginia, travelling on the Erie Canal, failed to duck as the boat was passing one of the many low bridges. The result was a bump on his head and the amusement of his fellow travellers.
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