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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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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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Personal Development
"Nice passion is reading."
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Personal Development
"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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Personal Development
"The act of fishing " for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available " is enough."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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Personal Development
"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."
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Personal Development
"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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"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."
Happiness
"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
Nature
"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."
Hurt
"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
Democracy
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
Humor
"A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there."
Nothing
"The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it."
World
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
Leisure
"The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them."
Past
"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."
Education
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