#leisure

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

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

— Cyril Connolly

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Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ↗

— George Byron

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. ↗

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

— Blaise Pascal

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