Vacation

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Topic

Vacation Time off Taking it easy

Author

Kenneth Grahame

Source

The Wind in the Willows

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Vacation Time off Too much of a good thing

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Children's Happiness A Treatise on Parents and Children

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.

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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Topic

Work-life balance Work Vacation Leisure

Speaker

Prince Hal

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry IV, Part 1

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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.