Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need

Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.

Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need