Quote by Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leis

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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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. – Agnes Repplier

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Dogs
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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. – Agnes Repplier

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Cinema
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. – Agnes Repplier

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Coffee (or Tea)
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Leisure
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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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Leisure tends to corrupt, and absolute leisure corrupts absolutely. – Edgar A. Shoaff

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Leisure

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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Leisure

The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “On Tranquillity of Mind”

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Leisure

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Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

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There are those who so dislike the nude that they find something indecent in the naked truth. – Francis H. Bradley

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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, dont you? – Ben Hogan

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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. – Jos

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