Miller wrote: “If you dream of being idle, you will fail to accomplish your designs.”
The historical account
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Idle · Heading 1020; source lines 11894–11903 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
If you dream of being idle, you will fail to accomplish your designs.
To see your friends in idleness, you will hear of some trouble affecting them.
For a young woman to dream that she is leading an idle existence, she will fall into bad habits, and is likely to marry a shiftless man.
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