"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 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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"Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties."

Balance, Water

"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any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, Fault, Name, Reputation

"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, May, Right, Weapons

"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, Open, Space, Will

"Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted."

Ability, Being, Care, Economy

"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."

Work, May

"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."

Nature, Work, Consistency, Circumstance

"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, Wealth, Abundance, Fortune

"Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other."

Beauty, Appearance, Being, Taste

"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."

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"In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Leisure, Society, Forget, Occupations

"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."

Herman Melville, American Novelist

Leisure, Work, Dignity, Talk

"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

Leisure, Literary, Suicide

"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."

Ian Botham, English Athlete

Leisure, Struggle

"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."

Jimmy Cannon, American Journalist

Leisure, Fishing

"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."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

Leisure, Name, Names, Now, Pretty

"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."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

Leisure, Holiday

"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

Leisure, Amusement, Deep, Water

"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."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

Leisure, Beach, Guilt, Now, Problems

"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."

Agnes Repplier, American Writer

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