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

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.

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

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

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