Original artwork, not a still
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
A pun on the familiar line about loving and losing: here the prize is idleness. The speaker claims that a life of lounging, even if it costs something, beats never having taken a leisurely break. It is a playful defence of loafing dressed up as romantic wisdom.
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