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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Work, Lazy, Laziness

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• It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Book, Class

  Speech at Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate) on the Damage to Property (Compensation) Bill, March 28, 1923.

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• Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered.

  William Russell

  Work, Responsibility, Men

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• leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Attitude, Mind, Remission

  Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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• The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Challenges, Movement

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Holiday, Years, Age

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• The essence of leisure is not to assure that we may function smoothly but rather to assure that we, embedded in our social function, are enabled to remain fully human.

  Josef Pieper

  Essence, May, Embedded

  Josef Pieper (1989). “An Anthology”, p.48, Ignatius Press

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• Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Complaining, Unemployed

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Business, Positive Thinking

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Easyread Edition”, p.243, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

  James A. Michener

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Marriage, Mean

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.445, Oxford University Press

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• Leisure is the time for doing something useful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Time, Leisure Time, Diligent

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• If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.

  Gunter Grass

  Age, Dawn, Principles

  "From the Diary of a Snail". Book by Gunter Grass, www.theguardian.com. 1972.

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• At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Civilization, Roots, Belief

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• The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Class, Pay

  David Pryce-Jones, Cyril Connolly (1984). “Cyril Connolly: Journal and Memoir”

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

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• Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Haste Makes Waste, Housekeeping

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.

  Clive Bell

  Work, Mistake, Class

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• Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

  Jerry Brown

  Technology, Opportunity, Destiny

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• I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Citizens, Occupation, May

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.124

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• Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Vices, Busy

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• What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Life, Stress, Humor

  Songs of Joy (1911) "Leisure"

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• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Business, Work

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure.

  James K. Polk

  Patriotic, Political, President

  Polk, James K. (1910). “The diary of James K. Polk during his presidency, 1845 to 1849, now first printed from the original manuscript in the collections of the Chicago historical society; Volume 4”, p.261, Best Books on

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• It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful.

  W. H. Auden

  Past, Cheerful, Majority

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