Famous Quotes | It is indolence ... indolence...

It is indolence ... indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine. - Jane Austen
Attribution: Jane Austen (1775–1817), British novelist. Mary Crawford, in Mansfield Park, ch. 11 (1814). “It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.” (Edmund, in Mansfield Park, ch. 9).

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