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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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Personal Development
"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Elend: I kind of lost track of time. Breeze: For two hours? Elend: There were books involved."
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Personal Development
"Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed."
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Personal Development
"Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide."
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Personal Development
"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."
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"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."
Education
"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
Nature
"We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh."
Love
"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh."
Love
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
People
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
Truth
"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
Conversation
"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
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."
Friendship
"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."
Hurt
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