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

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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier

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Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. – Edgar A. Shoaff

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