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Hermann Hesse
But it's a poor fellow who can't take his pleasure without asking other people's permission.
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Gilbert Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground
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Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game
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Plato
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation
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Miguel Cervantes
Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched
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Publilius Syrus
The more skilful the gambler, the worse the man
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Benjamin Franklin
Games lubricate the body and the mind
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Mark Twain
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do
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Friedrich Schiller
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays
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Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing
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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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