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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
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Scipio Africanus - [Leisure]
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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
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Aristotle - [Leisure]
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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 - [Leisure]
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It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.
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W. H. Auden - [Leisure]
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
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Natalie Clifford Barney - [Leisure]
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
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Gerald Brenan - [Leisure]
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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
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Martin Buber - [Leisure]
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A letter does not blush.
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Marcus T. Cicero - [Letters]
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He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.
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Marcus T. Cicero - [Leisure]
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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William H. Davies - [Leisure]
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