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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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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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"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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"They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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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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"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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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
Leisure
"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
Reading
"A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train."
Gender
"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
Gossip
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
Man
"Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
Success
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
Praise
"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
Argument
"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable."
Tolerance
"Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart."
Heart
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