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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."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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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."
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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
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"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"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."
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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
Architecture
"Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods."
God
"Care should be taken that all buildings are well lighted: in those of the country this point is easily accomplished, because the wall of a neighbour is not likely to interfere with the light."
Care
"But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation."
Art
"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one."
Work
"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left."
Enemy
"The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her."
Purpose
"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men
"Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole."
Agreement
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."
Music
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