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 | "A man is not poor because he has nothing but because he does
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| "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your
soul." | |
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Logan Pearsall Smith
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| "Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy." | |
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Thomas Hobbes
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| "Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at
night." | |
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George Allen
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| "Men should strive to learn, before they die, what they are running
from, and to, and why." | |
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James Thurber
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| "OVERWORK, n. A dangerous disorder affecting high public
functionaries who want to go fishing." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop." | |
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Publius Ovidius Naso Ovid
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| "The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no
harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant,
where I am forced to stay for hours and "have fun"" | |
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Phillip Lopate
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| "The time to relax is when you don?t have time for it." | |
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Sydney J. Harris
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| "They talk of the dignity of work. Bosh. The dignity is in
leisure." | |
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Herman Melville
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| "We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can
endure much leisure." | |
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Gerald Brenan
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| "We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go
to war in order that we may have peace." | |
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Aristotle
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| "What we do with our leisure time has considerable bearing on what we
accomplish during our working hours, and very largely determines the degree
of our success, Young men who, like yourselves, devote a predetermined
amount of their leisure hours to study and to serious thinking, are the
men who are going to progress far and fast. The business leaders of
tomorrow will be the young men of today?men like you who are preparing now
for the great future which lies ahead. You may view the future with
confidence, knowing that from the youth of today will emerge the leaders
of tomorrow." | |
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Thomas J. Watson
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| "You will soon break the bow if you leave it stretched." | |
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Phaedrus
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