"Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness."
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"It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable."
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"All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure."
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"In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time."
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"if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure."
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"Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, "God forbid that it should ever befall me!""
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"Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour."
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"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
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"Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God's power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature."
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"The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security."
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"The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts."
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"Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library."
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"Hess or no Hess, I'm going to watch the Marx Brothers."
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"I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it."
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"I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing."
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"A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted."
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"To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time."
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"No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself."
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"Who has more leisure than a worm?"
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"When a man's busy, why leisure Strikes him as wonderful pleasure: 'Faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightway he wants to be busy."
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