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The Marquis de Sade once stated that all universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Our city's fleet of buses is sitting idle today due to a strike by maintenance workers.

My son has been idle for weeks.

He really needs to find himself a summer job.

Our city's buses are sitting idle today due to a strike by maintenance workers.

The factories have been idle for weeks now due to the strike.

These idle secretaries do nothing all day but sit around and gossip.

Benjamin Franklin once observed that it is the working man who is the happy man.

It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

The Buddha taught that to be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life, foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

An old saying tells us that an idle brain is the devil's workshop.

My brother used to idle away many hours lying on the grass.

I spent an idle week there.

I regret having been idle in my youth.

Do not idle away your youth or you will regret it later.

Eldad The teacher was impatient with the idle fellow.

Our teacher has often told us not to idle away our time.

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