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I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Leisure
Scipio Africanus

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The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Leisure
Aristotle

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
Leisure
Natalie Clifford Barney

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Convent. A place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Nuns
Ambrose Bierce

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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Leisure
Gerald Brenan

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Leisure is the exultation of the possible.
Leisure
Martin Buber

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Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.
Good and Evil
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Marriage
William Congreve

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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
Arts and Artists
Cyril Connolly

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Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.
Civilization
Benjamin Disraeli

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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Laziness
Benjamin Franklin

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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Leisure
Benjamin Franklin

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The busier we are the more leisure we have.
Leisure
William Hazlitt

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The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
Action
William Hazlitt

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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Writers and Writing
Oliver Herford

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Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
Leisure
Thomas Hobbes

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
Leisure
Herman Melville

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In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are.
Leisure
Ovid

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The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Uncategorised
Blaise Pascal

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The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Laurence J. Peter

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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Literature
Seneca

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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Leisure
Logan Pearsall Smith

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He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.
Leisure
Henry David Thoreau

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The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
Integrity
Henry David Thoreau

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Civilization
Arnold Toynbee

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun