"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

Leisure, Reading, Rest, Habit

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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

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

Jimmy Cannon, American Journalist

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

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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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."

Henry Miller, American Author

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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."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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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?"

Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist

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"Nice passion is reading."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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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."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

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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."

Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Novelist

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"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."

Diana Gabaldon, American Author

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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."

John Kenneth Galbraith, American Economist

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"To see the years touch ye gives me joy", he whispered, "for it means that ye live."

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"It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch."

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