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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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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"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."
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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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"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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"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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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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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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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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"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."
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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."
Work
"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
"The lanes and streets of the city being set out, the choice of sites for the convenience and use of the state remains to be decided on; for sacred edifices, for the forum, and for other public buildings."
Being
"When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth."
Earth
"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."
Science
"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."
Care
"For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space."
Eye
"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men
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