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Leisure Quotes
"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
"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."
"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
"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."
"Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned."
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