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Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.

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Floyd Dell

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Born: June 28, 1887
Died: July 23, 1969 (aged 82)
Bio: Floyd James Dell was an American newspaper and magazine editor, literary critic, novelist, playwright, and poet. Dell has been called "one of the most flamboyant, versatile and influential American Men of Letters of the first third of the 20th Century.
Known for:
  1. King Arthur's Socks And Other Village Plays (1922)
  2. The briary-bush (1921)
  3. Moon Calf A Novel (1920)
  4. Intellectual vagabondage (1926)

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