#leisure

The busier we are the more leisure we have. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ↗

— George Byron

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To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#among #any #circumstances #conversations #easy

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. ↗

— Willie Mays

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ↗

— Herman Melville

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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. ↗