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Henry Thoreau
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book
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Bertrand Russell
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level
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Voltaire
Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world
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Benjamin Franklin
Beware the hobby that eats
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Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never
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Benjamin Franklin
Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure
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Ovid
In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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