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“all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.”

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Book:Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography

Source: Goodness Had Nothing to Do with it: Autobiography

“Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?”

Pleasure Sweet Leisure Toil Spoil

Author:John Sullivan Dwight

“I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Pleasure Pieces Relax Leisure Incapable Inability Leisure Time Work Day

Author:Fred Armisen

“Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.”

Men Giving Pleasure Education Busy Enjoyment Leisure Pleasure And Happiness Busy Man

Book:The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

Source: The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]

“I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.”

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“The aspirations of most people--security, pleasure, leisure, meaningful work, creative and intellectual pursuits--are to be supported. These desires and dreams are not shameful. In supporting them, we are showing solidarity with working people, for whom these are luxuries and not givens.”

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Book:Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes

“The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure.”

Love Should Firsts Heart Made Hands Hours Pleasure Accounts Slave Bounds Leisure Crave Heart Love

Book:Sonnets and Other Poems

Source: Sonnets and Other Poems

“Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.”

Men Giving Whole Hours Pleasure Office Leisure Addict Good Office

Book:The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes

Source: The Spectator: with notes and illustrations. In six volumes