Yes, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

— Auguste Topaze (Peter Sellers)

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9 seconds sound clip from the Mr. Topaze (1961) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:31:16 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- He's tired, sir.

- He's tired, is he?

- It seems then you've forgotten what we've repeated at least twenty times in this class.

- Does work tire you?

- Work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

- Excellent. You shall have ten out of ten.

- Yes, work tires no one. What tires one is laziness, the mother of all vices.

- And children, while we're about it, let us remember that...

- 'There is no profit in ill-gotten gains.' -Good. And that...

- 'Money does not bring happiness.'

- Mm, excellent, excellent.

- Yes, an honest man will be recompensed by gaining the esteem of all those who know him, and their confidence in him will be his best reward.

- When he goes past, old men will say...

[...]

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