#leisure

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. ↗

— Herman Melville

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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

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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 V. Pollio

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The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#economics #leisure #luxury #wealth #life

The only place where people in Manhattan walk for leisure is in the park. ↗

— Christo

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

— Prince Philip

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Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. ↗

— Guy Debord

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