Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them—their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.
ATTRIBUTION:
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter, July 7, 1938, to his daughter, Frances “Scottie” Fitzgerald. The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963).
