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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"I've cut down on a lot of stuff this summer, just so I can hang out and be a normal kid for a while."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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Personal Development
"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"Before I shall have become a man again I shall probably exist as a park, a sort of natural park in which people come to rest, to while away the time. What they say or do will be of little matter, for they will bring only their fatigue, their boredom, their hopelessness."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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"Reading - like masturbation - is something you do alone and very little in life brings more pleasure."
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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"
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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud."
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"Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable."
Tolerance
"Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
Success
"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
Peace
"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
Hair
"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
"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
Man
"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"
Christian
"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
Leisure
"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful."
Marriage
"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
Praise
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