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"Extend your vacation whenever possible."
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"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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"I think I'd struggle to get excited by synchronised swimming."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure."
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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."
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"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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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."
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"There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath."
Nature
"Truth is in things, and not in words."
Truth
"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great."
Courage
"Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged."
Freedom
"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future."
Leadership
"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."
Courage
"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."
Creativity
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men."
Unity
"Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land."
Patriotism
"Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity."
Hope
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