It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
- Anthony Trollope
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What a weird phrasing! I'm going to assume that Trollope was one of these types who saw work as its own virtue, thereby anyone who was both rich enough and disinclined enough to work was in need of "rescuing," preferably by the punitive means of having more children than he could feed on his existing budget.
I'm personally of the opinion that people need to be rescued from work, particularly if they're disinclined to do it in the first place. Nobody's worse to work with (and in some cases, life-threateningly dangerous) than someone who doesn't want to be there.