Bertrand Russell's 10 lessons for a creative, happy life – in pictures

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Bertrand Russell is a 20th-century philosopher for 21st-century living, arguing we can achieve far more by doing far less. In a new edition of Russell’s 1932 essay, In Praise of Idleness, Australian humourist Bradley Trevor Greive has reimagined some of his finest aphorisms for a good life. Here are our favourites

•In Praise of Idleness illustrated by Bradley Trevor Greive is published by Nero

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  An inexact manAll illustrations by Bradley Trevor Greive and published by Nero
  Photograph: Bradley Trevor Greive/Nero
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  Civilised life
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  No one gossips ...
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  The good life
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  Be eccentric
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  Let your artist loose
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  A generation of little men
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  The greatest evils
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  Anything you’re good at
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  The wish to find out
  Photograph: Bradley Trevor Greive/Nero
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