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• Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Father, Math, Long

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

  Victor Hugo

  Way, Philosopher, Spending Time

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• But leisure has little to do with one's happiness.  To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Commitment, People, Littles

  Alan Loy McGinnis (1985). “Bringing Out the Best in People: How to Enjoy Helping Others Excel”, p.66, Augsburg Books

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• One should connect language learning with either work or leisure. And not at the expense of them but to supplement them.

  Kató Lomb

  Language, Should, Expenses

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• I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance.

  Ogden Nash

  Nonchalance, Insouciance

  Ogden Nash (1931). “Hard lines”

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• The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Integrity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.156, Penguin

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• Sit loosely in the saddle.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Saddles

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• Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

  Agnes Repplier

  People, Letters, Path

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.

  Jeremy Collier

  Light, Culture, Hints

  Jeremy Collier (1728). “Essays upon several moral subjects”, p.70

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• Passing too eagerly upon a provocation loses the guard and lays open the body; calmness and leisure and deliberation do the business much better.

  Jeremy Collier

  Body, Retribution, Passing

  Jeremy Collier (1720). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: Part III. ... By Jeremy Collier, M.A.”, p.31

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• Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in great architecture, great painting and great literature. Only in the atmosphere thus engendered floats that impalpable dust of ideas which is the real culture. A colony of ants or bees will never create a Parthenon.

  Edith Wharton

  Real, Flower, Dust

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• From the point of view of the employer, it is in any case simply an item of cost, to be reduced to a minimum if it cannot be eliminated altogether, say, by automation. From the point of view of the workman, it is a "disutility"; to work is to make a sacrifice of one's leisure and comfort, and wages are a kind of compensation for the sacrifice.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Sacrifice, Views, Comfort

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking

  Michel de Montaigne

  Drinking, Giving, Thirsty

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• It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

  Marianne Moore

  Art, Reading, Mean

  Marianne Moore (1997). “The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Technology, Thinking, Saving

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

  George Gissing

  Drinking, Tea, Enjoy

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.205, The Floating Press

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• The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.

  Seneca the Younger

  Relaxation, Mind, Stronger

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• Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

  Bob Black

  Sake, Hopeless, Forget

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Race, Interesting, Credit

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• Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.

  Anne Robinson

  Summer, Believe, Years

  "Anne Robinson: after our Sri Lanka trip, will my daughter still speak to me?" by Anne Robinson and Emma Wilson, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Man works when he is partially involved. When he is totally involved he is at play or leisure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Play, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan (2014). “Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication”, p.125, Routledge

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• The simple idea that everyone needs a reasonable amount of challenging work in his or her life, and also a personal life, complete with noncompetitive leisure, has never really taken hold.

  Judith Martin

  Inspirational, Taken, Simple

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Opportunity, Pyramids, Joy

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• Play for young children is not recreation activity, It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity. Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.

  James L Hymes

  Children, Memories, Thinking

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• What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Running, Mean, Opportunity

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.293

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