Beatrice Webb Quote

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.


The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892 (ed. Belknap Press, 1982)


Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.