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Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

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Phrynette Married

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Troly-Curtin, Marthe. Phrynette Married. The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1912.

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The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise.

Ben Sira

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastus 38:24).

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The Bible: Authorized King James Version, edited by Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett. Oxford University Press, 2008. (Ecclesiastus 38:24).

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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.

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The thing which is the most outstanding and chiefly to be desired by all healthy and good and well-off persons, is leisure with honor.

Cicero

Pro Sestio

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Sestio [In Defense of Publius Sestio]. c. 56 BC, Rome, Italy.

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Idleness as such is by no means a root of evil; on the contrary, it is truly a divine life, if one is not bored.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

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Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

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There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

Calvin

Quoted in Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 28 Aug. 1988.

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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015 act 1, sc. 1.

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I have done my plowing:
I have sown my seed.
Again I have time to sit and read my books.

Tao Yuanming

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Yuanming, Tao. Reading the Book of Hills and Seas. c. 427.

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Whether we consider the manual industry of the poor, or the intellectual exertions of the superior classes, we shall find that diligent occupation, if not criminally perverted from its end, is at once the instrument of virtue and the secret of happiness. Man cannot be safely trusted with a life of leisure.

Hannah More

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More, Hannah. Christian Morals. Vol. 2, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.

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Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least.

Leonardo da Vinci

Quoted in Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, by Giorgio Vasari

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Vasari, Giorgio. Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori [The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects]. Vol 2, Florence: Giunti, 1568.

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Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Artists, translated by George Bull. Vol. 1, Penguin Classics, 1988.

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Work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

George MacDonald

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Wilfrid Cumbermede

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MacDonald, George. Wilfred Cumbermede. New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1872.

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