Recreation

(212 votes)   Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(169 votes)   If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(152 votes)   I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Ernest Hemingway
1898-1961, American Writer

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(138 votes)   Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist

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(122 votes)   The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Amelia Earhart
1897-1937, American Aviator, Author

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(106 votes)   One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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