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A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. – Hamilton Wright Mabie

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I love old poems, ladies who lived in past times. Life was maybe not easier, but people took time to idle sometime, and mostly they took time admiring a sunrise, the flowers opening their hearts, etc. – Marie-Ancolie Romanet #oldsoul

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I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Comte de Mirabeau

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People tend to forget that play is serious. – David Hockney

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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. – Aristotle

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Ambition can creep as well as soar. – Edmund Burke

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I am a dreamer. Seriously, Im living on another planet. – Eva Green

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We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, wed never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them. – Jon Ronson

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