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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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To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. – George Santayana

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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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Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father. – Roger von Oech

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It was the hour of four in the afternoon, and already in hillside homesteads the day was nearly done. There was everywhere an air of that sweet, old-fashioned leisure which the world has nearly lost. It lingered in the slant sunlight that threw shadows across the winding road… – Florence Bone (1875–1971), The Morning of To‑Day, 1907

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