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Work is more excellent than idleness; The body's life proceeds not, lacking work.
— Bhagavad Gita 3:8 – tr. Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)
Bhagavad Gita 3:8 – tr. Sir Edwin Arnold, The Song Celestial (1885)

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