<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358012" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Weary Philosopher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can conceive no heav'nly bliss<br>More perfectly complete than this:<br>To sit and smoke and idly chew<br>Reflection's cud, with nought to do.<br>This is, in my pet social plan,<br>The right of ev'ry honest man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can conceive no punishment<br>For wicked men of evil bent,<br>Who cheat and lie and drink and rob,<br>More meet than giving them a job.<br>This is, to my unruffled mind,<br>Correction of the sternest kind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can conceive a world, in dreams;<br>A happy, restful world it seems;<br>A wise, well-ordered globe wherein<br>Men toil to expiate a sin,<br>While harmless and right-thinking folk<br>Have nought to do but sit and smoke.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ask but to be left alone;<br>And let the wicked man atone<br>In graft for having energy<br>To sin against society.<br>For, clearly, I commit no crime,<br>Since I do nothing all the time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sins of omssion, you will see,<br>Don't count in my philosophy<br>And it is safer far to shirk,<br>Lest, working, one might find more work.<br>No man is able to foresee<br>The far effects of energy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But in this thoughtless, restless age<br>What honor is there for the sage?<br>When Philistines, in manner rude,<br>Disturb my sleepy solitude,<br>Where in my peaceful bower I lurk,<br>And coarsely shout at me: 'Get work!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358012" data-title="The Weary Philosopher de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="I can conceive no heav'nly bliss More perfectly complete than this: To sit and smoke and idly chew Reflection's cud, with nought to do. This is, in my pet social plan, The right of ev'ry honest man. I can conceive no punishment For wicked men of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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