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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."

"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."

"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."

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

"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."

"Reading... a vacation for the mind...."

"Extend your vacation whenever possible."

"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."
Explore more quotes by Agnes Repplier

"It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought."

"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."

"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."

"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."

"Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements."
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